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…
Lazy W Marie
Carpeing all the diems in semi-rural Oklahoma...xoxo
Lazy W Marie
Carpeing all the diems in semi-rural Oklahoma...xoxo
early spring stream of consciousness
Welcome to springtime in my brain! This post will be some kind of hybrid between a concise and unlyrical “Farm Journal Entry” and a long form, better orchestrated blog post. Spring has sprung. The weather has shifted, the landscape has…
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…
snowmelt & hope for change
All week we been shivering and hiding ourselves away in near-zero temps, shrouded in snow and ice. Dark, moody skies. Until today. Today, the sun reappeared. It started with a raw, rusty edge in the east, a quiet daybreak already…
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…