I know I usually post funny stuff on here, or an attempt to anyway, but every once in awhile, I just feel the need to vent, and I guess typing it is a new self-help for me? I dont know. Im not for sure but I suffer from a type A personality, maybe not on all things, but for sure when it comes to being on time, I regress, how bout just showing up within 10 minutes of the pre-determined time?
Sometimes I guess Im too much like a kid, I look forward to things, and I usually put 110% into...

Seven years ago today on 7-7-01, I opened the door to find two policemen standing on my doorstep. One identified himself as the local police chaplain, and after verifying who I was, went on to regretfully inform me that our 16 year old son, Aaron (our only child) and 2 of his friends, both age 17, had been killed in a freak car accident.

Since that time...my husband and I have spent many years trying to recover from what the policeman told me on that morning. Have we recovered?...

Bill stayed down in Oklahoma at his cousins for close to a month. There was sporadic contact of a few stolen moments of phone calls.

Bill got word that electric service had been restored. So he and his wife headed back to Ms. and arrived, just in time for Rita to hit. Electric and phones were out for another week.
Having experienced Katrina affected Bill in ways I couldn't begin to fathom, and I couldn't understand.
All I knew was he seemed to have grown distant. He...

A week or two before Katrina arrived, Bill and I made the leap from online chatting to a phone call. That call is in my mind as if it happened only yesterday. The first time I heard that deep, soft southern drawl made my knees weak.That call lasted 5 hours. 5 hours where we talked non stop. 5 hours that changed my thinking about Bill Moyers. There was more to this guy then shyness and stroke. I had never met anyone I could talk to about anything and they knew what I meant. If such a thing as a electrical...

Between kids & work & home & nice weather & summer fun & BBQ's & family, I've spent less time around the blogs.

Since my last post, I went back to smoking... I will try again for as long as I find something to help me emotionally. I found it difficult to dealing with stress, which made me depressed.

We the price of gas & the cost of everything else going up, we'll probably "vacation" in our own area. It's actually something we enjoy...