Grateful for the nitty gritty in every day experiences: Sitting outside in the sunshine in a sweater and leggings but barefoot: this is a Texas thing only, methinks. It’s a glorious, fleeting feeling. A brisk walk, just around the block, to get sunshine on my face before I start my day. Cold, crisp, not slow…
2025 is undoubtedly going to be surprising. Many of the things that happened late this year in 2024 (NOT peaceful things despite my 2024 word of peace) are setting 2025 up to be a doozy. What will happen?! NO ONE KNOWS! Least of all me! Which is fun and exciting and terrifying and requires a…
The joy of skiing. Sometimes I shock even myself with how much I love skiing. It’s honestly such a pain: layers and special socks and what boots to wear pre- and post- ski boots and layers after ski and how to keep your hair from freezing and hauling all the gear and stuffing your pockets…
The biggest day of gratitude! What a coast-to-coast whirlwind the last week has been but I am grateful for my family, the opportunities, and my new, bigger family on the east coast! Holiday season is here, and boy is it packed with activities! I am so excited to catch up with so many people and…
Everything’s coming up Austin (and Houston, and Amarillo) in this checklist. READ ‘EM A journalist I worked with decades ago has written a book about Austin. I have not read it yet, but I can only imagine it’s as nuanced and thoughtful as the rest of his reporting. PACK YER BAGS Yellowstone recently shot and…
Thank you, blog readers, for sticking with me this past year as I very erratically posted. I love blogging and always will, but there’s a lot in question as to mediums, who is reading (I’m pretty sure I can name all of you 😉 lol), and if it’s even worth it? It is. Sporadic, as…
You can click through to ig for the fifth pic – from my amazing birthday party! Backyard Ball supporting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation – always an amazing time. Quick trip just the two of us to Colorado, buying a bike and accidentally extending a hike. The best dog. Pretty city from a truck window after…
the bits of summer garden we have growing: tiny cukes and tiny tomatoes and big, fat abundant figs! my helpful handsome humanitarian warrior husband made a delicious dinner under 100 degree temps – almost nice on our morning walks – and a bit of rain bob is naughty but i’m grateful for his training and…
The whole fam is headed up to Colorado for my mom’s belated 70th birthday celebration, and our flights are delayed—on two different airlines! Summer in the mountains. But! I’m grateful we’re going, and this is just an inevitable part of travel. In a short week with a weird Wednesday holiday from work, nothing has gone…
We’re married! How to catch you readers up on my life since the last FGF? Skip over my magical wedding and honeymoon like they didn’t exist and dive into the day to day magic?Post all the photos we’ve shared on instagram here, here, and here, while we wait for more from the photographer? Embed the…