Month: July 2014

When Mark was in graduate school and I was working at a bank, my coworker in consumer loans was a Montana girl named Phyllis.  Like me, her husband was also in graduate school. We made a good team.  Two women doing the heavy lifting of finances in our relationships while our spouses each pursued a … Read more

Mark and I are headed out of town for a big road trip out West to search for our inner cowboy.  He’s going for legit reasons and trying to wrangle some attention and money.  I’m desperate to get out of Kansas and would go to the Quiktrip across the state line if we could make … Read more

Mark had a colleague in town last month from London.  He said very British things like, “rubbish, lovely and loo.”  I was charmed.  A Londoner in Kansas?  In our house?  Look at my husband bringing home The Classy Brit.  Quite a different lot than back in his roofing days when those guys came with their … Read more

The Listen to Your Mother videos for 2014 made their way to youtube this morning.  My hair is wild.  My mouth got so dry I felt like Pinocchio.   My heart was pounding.   I was still making changes to my piece until the very day of the show.  It was one of the scariest things I’ve … Read more

Whenever I get all hot and bothered by something (I’m talking to you Hobby Lobby) and then write about it I usually get a good response.  It seems the tendency these days is to frequently get hot and bothered over current events.  There’s refugees this week, Congress, Iraq, Israel and guns every week, and Joan … Read more