Author Archives: @thatpluckygirl

Ah, springtime. I may be juggling a teensy bit of resentment…but first, no matter what is happening to me personally, or to my community as a whole, it is beautiful in Texas in May. That’s just a fact.It is getting unbearably hot in the afternoon but the mornings and evenings are perfection. Heaven distilled. Pure, sweet joy.Continue reading “Spring, Feral Children, and Juggling”

How is everyone doing? I swing wildly between ‘I was born for staying inside all day in my pj’s! Yah! I’m so grateful I can spend this special time with my children – thank God for all the medical workers, the essential workers, all the people out there risking the lives of not only themselvesContinue reading “Emergency Sanity Saver”

Recently Governor Andrew Cuomo has said that New York state is a microcosm of America. They’ve got the big city of New York, but also rural upstate New York where ‘we’ve got more cows than people’. If New York is a microcosm of America, we are in for a steep ride my friends, one thatContinue reading “The Brothers Cuomo”

Hiya my friends – look – I don’t know if anyone other than mom and some uncles and aunts back home read this but, in case you’re out there too, I wanna talk about butterflies. Just kidding, I want to talk about what we’re all going to do now that our lives have been disruptedContinue reading “The Gift Of Nowhere To Go”

It was a clear, sunny morning in The Woodlands, Texas. The air was cold enough to warrant a hoodie, jeans, and my favorite faux-leather boots, not enough for a jacket too. The hospital was fine as most hospitals go. It was square and colorless, with wide, clean windows and smooth tan walls. “Hullo!” I sayContinue reading “The Merry Mammogram for Me”

A storm rolled through my town last night, around midnight. The tall Texas pine trees surrounding my house thrashed their tops, the lightening pulsed and the thunder barreled around like an oil drum caught in an empty swimming pool. The rain running down the outside of the window made the back yard look warped, likeContinue reading “The Grand Experiment”

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas…or at least a red Lexus in green Texas am I right!? You guys, it’s the CHRISTMAS season! You know what that means! Hallmark movies in my pj’s while I sip cocoa and a fire crackles merrily in the fireplace and the tree sparkles with magic and Santa is gatheringContinue reading “Don’t Let the Muggles Get You Down”

Welcome to my third installment of…Things I Do Now… …checking for frogs in my bathroom before I go potty. On three separate occasions I rushed into the bathroom to ah..powder my nose…before leaving to drop the kids at school and there was a tiny frog on the toilet lid. Yes. What they were doing thereContinue reading “THINGS I DO NOW”

First, for those of my buddies in Atlantic Canada – stay safe – don’t take chances, Dorian is nothing to mess around with. Ping us to keep us updated on facebook if you can.For those of you not in it’s path and who want to help, you can donate to help those in the BahamasContinue reading “Dennis the Menace, High Fever Season and #Gardengeeking”