• Friends

    A Taco, a Duck and a Sushi walk into a bar …

      This isn’t a post about a joke. This is a post about nicknames. A friend sent me this saying last week and I instantly connected with it: We all have a friend who only gets called by their nickname … it sounds weird to even say their real name. That describes perfectly me and two of my good friends. Just about anyone who knew us in high school calls us by our nicknames: Taco, Duck and Sushi. We are all now in our 40s. Taco I picked up the nickname Taco in a junior high Spanish class. I was in Mrs. McDonald’s first period taking a quiz on vocabulary…

  • Friends,  Lee,  Sports

    The way the cookie crumbles: an anniversary present from Lee

    Lee surprised me this afternoon with an anniversary present a day early — a dozen custom-designed cookies celebrating my big win in my fantasy football league this year! Those who know us know that it’s uber-romantic for his gift to be sports-related. That is how we roll. And I take great pleasure knowing that he went against every fiber of his being to order black and gold, Mizzou-ish cookies. Just gonna say now that I don’t plan on ever ordering Kansas Jayhawk cookies for him. Our friend Stephanie Johnson runs Sweets By Steph here in Wichita and she made the cookies. She bakes a yummy cookie and her design skills…