She can’t help herself

Our dog, a retriever. She keeps running up to me carrying various toys/food that the kids have somehow let her have. Followed by a running and/or crying child to file their complaint that they have been wronged. I’d stop it but it’s wildly entertaining. Just now it was a wooden Santa that plays an obnoxious […]

The unbearable “it”-ness of being

Ok, y’all. I promise not to hold back. I’m probably being melodramatic. Or worse. Hell, I can’t tell. But the stuff whirling around in my brain has to come out sometime, and perhaps if it comes out here I can sort through some of it. To spare the casual visitor who is just here looking […]

Feliz Navidad

If you have never heard Jose Feliciano sing this, I would guess a) you are missing out on a Category V Earworm and/or 2) you don’t live in Texas. Anyway, my son is singing it tonite, in his own special (top of the lungs) way: “I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas, from the bottom […]