A tale of Homemade Potato Bacon Soup. I meant to make mashed potatoes. Ok, not mashed, smashed I’m FAR TOO LAZY to peel potatoes (and usually cut myself)…

I swear if I told you all that I cook like this (as in THROW ALL THE THINGS FROM THE REFRIGERATOR INTO A NEW RECIPE) a majority of…

Go Pink Buffalo! Go Pink Buffalo. I like it. A Buffalo twist on the pink flamingo. (No not the bar, the actual, plastic pink flamingo.) Idea birthed by…

Welcome to Springville Podcast? Whaaaa? Oh my—that **say yes and figure it out later** mantra just made me the first podcast guest. (Good thing I love the hosts…

Unnecessary Dress Browsing. I’m currently wasting time, ok, not wasting, rethink—choosing to spend my time browsing pretty sale dresses on the interwebz. I found this one and sent…

A reprint of my article in Springville Times: Happy February Break! Here we are in the middle of February and it’s already time for the kids Winter Break. There’s…

Slowly. Creeping. To. Civilization. A Rural Internet (Sort of Win!) HWMMS just installed the new satellite internet router from Viasat which gives us almost, normal, sort of internet speeds…

Repost of article in the Springville Times. Ah, Valentine’s Day. Love is in the air. No matter if you subscribe to the “Love is All You Need” view…

New Year & New Jobs! Monday, I put in notice at the Chamber of Commerce. When I landed there two years ago, I had committed myself to the…

“They paved paradise and put up a taco truck…ooh, la, la, la, la, la…”  Never question the journey, enjoy the ride. Today while accompanying a friend to a…

Super blue blood moon? Huh? What happened to just plain ol’ full moon? Super blue blood moon sounds like a phase my body goes through every day 28…

Join the Springville Calico Club! Are you looking to meet more people and hang out socially once a month? Would you like to be in a club that…

Trip to the Eden Kazoo Factory! Life is good living out silly moments with dear friends at local kitschy museums.

I rarely dive into the music wormhole. But tonight, for some reason I needed to hear these songs. Enter into my musical inner dialogue. All make me cry….

New to us car? CHECK. Brought it home from Emerling on Friday afternoon. Wheee! When cleaning out the truck this week, we found one of these. I cried….

Big Pile of Poo. That’s all I can say. Trump’s ‘shithole’ comment is his new rock bottom This person has turned our country’s highest office into a big…

Breathe in deeply. Welcome to January and a New Year! Along with the regular resolutions we all start off the year with, eating better, getting more exercise, starting…

Stuck! A familiar sight in Winter Weber Wonderland. Must have four-wheel drive for our treacherous windy, uphill driveway. Didn’t even get to Bogert Curve this time. Kubota to…

I just picked up my friend Jaclyn Levesque‘s art from an exhibit at Springville Center for the Arts. I don’t want to give it back to her. I want it…

Help Inclusive Theater Grow! Inclusive Theater of WNY is giving people of ALL abilities, ethnicity, and backgrounds a positive and safe place to find their strengths, and to…

LET’S GO BUFFALO! Me: TODAY THE BILLS ARE GONNA BEAT JACKSONVILLE & THEN MAKE TOM BRADY CRY & GO TO THE SUPER BOWL OHMYGODITSALLHAPPENING! #GoBills ❤?? NERVOUS. So nervous.

Baby it’s cold outside! Also be jealous of my awesome below zero style…bright orange jacket, Chilly Willy penguin hat and fake Burberry pattern scarf. ? 

Fire. And. Fury. Pretty sure these are the feelings I’m gonna have while reading this book by Michael Wolff: Fire and Fury. Start by reading this excerpt in…

How is this real life? January 2018: Just came back from Village Board meeting. Simple, small-town politics. Swearing in a new Police officer, wishing happy birthday to a…

After seeing a commercial now about for the 27th time about 3D mammography at Roswell Park I feel like the universe is reminding me, I’m past my checkup…