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I wrote my first guest post on another blog, The Traveling Tomato foodie site
My sister-in-law Elyse started a new website this summer with the help of my niece Abby, who is making a summer job of helping get the site populated. The site is a travel guide to finding restaurants that have menus friendly to vegetarians, vegans, folks avoiding gluten, paleo enthusiasts, those keeping kosher or people who just like food! I’m betting you fall into at least ONE of those categories, so check out The Traveling Tomato. And in case you are wondering what paleo enthusiast means, I had to look it up so I’ll share: paleo eating refers to a diet that mimics the diets of our caveman ancestors and includes meats,…
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Trip pix: Favorite images from international trips
I recently found an online group called Kansas Women Bloggers. In case it’s not obvious, it’s a gathering place for women … in Kansas … who blog :) As a new blogger, I’m looking forward to getting to know the other bloggers in our state and hoping at least a couple will enjoy reading my blog. One of the features on the KWB site is Wordless Wednesday, and I try to participate as often as I remember to look for the week’s theme ahead of time. This week the theme was Get Your Passport — we were asked to share favorite images from international trips. I took a liberal definition…
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I have issues: running out of gas
Confession: I have run out of gas in every vehicle I’ve ever owned. Ever’one. Pathetic, right? I’m not proud of it but I’m sharing it here because apparently this blog’s part-time job is to provide a forum for me to embarrass myself or my husband, or both of us. Now you might have picked up on this factoid about me if you read the he said-she said posts that we wrote when we took a wrong turn deep in the heart of Texas and nearly ran out of gas. So I figured I’d spill the full details. The time in the Skylark It all started with the 1976 Buick Skylark…
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A parent’s day post – say what you need to say
I wrote a version of this post in May for Mother’s Day and didn’t publish it on my blog because I worried it might be too sad or depress those of you who are fortunate to get to celebrate the day with your moms. I’m bringing it out and revising it for Father’s Day because I just watched a video that made me realize this is a message everyone needs to hear about relationships with either or both parents. I tried so hard to not take tomorrow for granted during the decade my mom struggled with early onset emphysema. I talked to her almost daily and visited her in Missouri…
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Happy one year {career break} anniversary to me!
This week marked one year ago that I decided to take a break from full-time employment. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do but I was at a good spot to stop for awhile and think about it. It was a planned break and one that Lee and I discussed and agreed on – planned but not completely mapped out. It was hard to define the break because I had a lot of questions and I knew that as I started to find answers, those answers would steer me in the direction I needed to go. I’ve learned a lot in the past year and I’ve gone in several…