dare you
A few days ago Handsome and I were at our favorite Mexican restaurant, filling our bellies and trying to stay awake. It was the day after our big annual Talent Show, which is draining in all the best ways, and…
Lazy W Marie
Carpeing all the diems in semi-rural Oklahoma...xoxo
Lazy W Marie
Carpeing all the diems in semi-rural Oklahoma...xoxo
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to Judy at her baby’s milestone birthday
August 26, 2025 Dear Judy, Fifty years ago you were likely preparing for the hospital, anxiously awaiting your much loved and much planned love child with Harvey. Actually, knowing your nature, you had been ready for a while! Your suitcase…
Friday 5 at the Farm, Gifts of Staycation
Our 24th anniversary staycation has been wonderful. A long summertime spell. All of it together has been just what we both needed, which is simply lots and lots of uninterrupted normal life, mostly alone. We feel so lucky! Including today…
her second mother’s day
The moment she announced her growing family, we all shrieked with joy. And I mean SHRIEKED. No one was expecting it. We were all just so happy to be together. About 25 family members were holding hands in our living…
hold what ya got
My husband says something that drives me crazy. Not the… please shut the cabinet door or would you please put your dirty socks away kind of crazy. (Not that he does those things.) (I’m just giving you examples.) More of…
a charlie and rhett story
Read this short story in your best Rod Serling voice: Imagine if you will, a ten degree morning on an ice covered farm. The sun is brilliant, bouncing wide, metallic sheets of light off of every surface. The wind is…