Self portrait on a Ms. Butterworth bottle  

I’m blocked clean up. Plum out of ideas. Since writing about my personal healthcare hell, I have spent a tremendous amount of time writing and reading everything I could (education is power?) to learn what I, little ole’… Read full post »

I was showing my art last Friday night, at an Art Walk, when a man walked up with 2 adorable sons.  One son wore a very high tech hearing aid.  He had had a cochlear implant.  I explained that I had had surgery to restore my hearing, years ago.  We discussed how/… Read full post »

I was probably 6 months pregnant. It was a winter afternoon and Ratt was in the den having a toke. He had just come in from the woods. Probably duck hunting. That was one of his good ole’ boy passions.  He once told me, “There ain’t nothing like a cold winter/… Read full post »

I sure have missed y’all. I’ve spent the last few days reading and reading and reading. My goodness, the things I have missed. It’s gonna take me weeks to get caught up. And I shall enjoy every minute of it.

For all my wonderful OS friends that have sent me… Read full post »

The weekend is almost over. Thank ya, sweet jesus!

Damn, let’s start with Friday.

I held my hypertufa class with little ladies, in my backyard. It’s an all-day-gig and as much as I love it, it wears me out. In a good way, but physically...whew! For one thing,… Read full post »

I am a Dallas girl.  I’m talkin’… raised in North Park Mall. City girl all the way. Neimans, Sanger Harris, Department Store, kinda gal. No small towns. No Wal-Marts. No woods. No sir-ree. Not me. Then I met a good ole’ boy from South Arkansas. It was love/… Read full post »

            I just know y’all have been holding on to your seats awaiting this valuable information. Without further ado….

1. I received an award from Bill Clinton.

HA! Ha! This is true. I recei… Read full post »

OESheepdog has challenged us to post 2 truths and a lie. I'm just doin' what the dog told me to do....

You pick......

            1. I received an award from Bill Clinton.

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quote from Glenda the Good Witch, to Dorothy after her house landed in OZ  /  Wizard of Oz, 1939

  Oops! That was “witch” not “bitch.” 

My bad.

“Glenda … her Golden Years”

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“Baby, slow down.” I told the Oldest, shortly after we got on the road.

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Ever had one of those days? Maybe it was a couple of days? Where no matter what you do, or how you do it, something or somebody is gonna fuck it up. In every direction.

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My best friend’s mother died a couple of weeks ago. She had been… Read full post »

 

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Oh my! Oh my! It’s been a long weekend flowing into Monday. Boobs, tits, and pencils. We got big boobs, little tiny titties, Olympic pencil competition, and foot hole pornography.

So let’s talk seriously about boobs.

I have had a huge set of… Read full post »

This post was inspired by Tequila and Donuts’ pecker problems. It is meant to be a public service to all grackle haters.

Disclaimer: there were no shit birds hurt in this exercise, even though guns were drawn.

Grackles are birds from hell. The devil sent them just to piss… Read full post »

Yesterday, Monday, March 16^th, the OS guys put out an open call for “pinched.”  How are we all dealing with the economic crap that’s going on?  HMMMMM?

I’ve been laid off in the past.  But I’ve been working really hard to establish my own… Read full post »

Daddy was quite a character.  He and Mom divorced when I was four.  He was career Air Force so I didn’t see him much, growing up.  I lived in Dallas.

At the first of every summer, Mom would put me on an American Airlines flight for Chicago.  I was an/… Read full post »

I’m here……I’m FINALLY here………writing. Actually writing.

You see, I have been lurking for several months now. All the while, I was finishing a silly little “how to” ebook. I told myself, my reward would be to write on OS, but first I ha… Read full post »