I’m back! Four pounds lighter, perhaps a few inches smaller and feeling very pleased with self for surviving the Whole30. Thanks for the votes of confidence! Today, I’m using my column for something other than what’s become a bit of my personal blog post. Instead, I’m going to share both my disappointment and my hope. [...]
Happy New Year! Yep, 2017 has entered at full throttle, complete with hideous cold and deeply unfortunate wind. We’ve all become complete wusses after the last few winters and as someone who has been a proud Wyoming resident for 24 years and 7 months (but who’s counting?), I don’t remember it being quite this cold [...]
It’s the Christmas season! Yippee! You know how I know this? Not because the decorations are up in stores. That happened in September. And not because the snow finally started flying, although that did help. Nope, the Christmas music has started on the radio stations. At least the radio has the decency to wait until [...]
I’m a big fan. Whether it’s pigs, chocolate, Chardonnay, Jane Austen novels or Chicago-style deep dish pizza, I am all in. No one can doubt my enthusiasm. In fact, for Halloween one year, I had a t-shirt emblazoned with “Go, Ceiling!” and had pom poms, a little skirt and made up pro-ceiling cheers. Get it? [...]
I am the parent of two boys, ages 11 and 14. I came to the parenting gig late so I had plenty of time to watch my friends raise their children. I also had plenty of time to be incredibly judgmental about what I saw as their mistakes and shortcomings. In my head I was [...]
I’ve recently returned from a trip down south. Douglas, to be specific. It’s Wyoming State Fair time and my boys were fortunate enough to have had a great Sheridan County Fair so we joined the parade of livestock trailers down the interstate. As I was musing on the subject for this column, I couldn’t help [...]
There are some who think I have my own language. This is probably because I make up words to suit my needs. For example, the term ‘stuade,’ pronounced stwaid. It’s kind of fun to see in print, isn’t it? Stuade is actually a word one of my college friends made up and I use it [...]
I just saw a very funny commercial. Almost as funny as the one from Geico with the mom calling the James Bond-like son during a high pressure situation and wanting to talk to him about the squirrel infestation at the parental home. I want to say right up front that I would never do something [...]
Have I mentioned that I just returned from sunny California? It was a huge sacrifice to leave Wyoming in March for the Bay Area but one must make sacrifices for one’s professional development. Call me the sacrificial lamb. Baaa. I headed to the land of fruits and nuts (or vineyards and palm trees) to attend [...]
I have been called a Pollyanna. And not always in a kind, supportive way. More in the, “Open your eyes, Amy! There are mean people everywhere, bad things happen constantly and the world may be coming to an end at any time! Stop with the perpetual optimism!” variety. I won’t belabor my supersized optimism gene [...]
