Abridge To Brooklyn

As part of our “farm kid training” my parents made all three children endure this thing called “Horse 4-H”.
Someday perhaps Brooke will give you her version of it because it is by far, the best. But for our purposes today I am going to steal a moment from my “little” brother Buff.
Buff rode Chief. I [...]

Hi. Lindsey here.

I have to clarify, because I am about to use  a camera for an example and before I go and twist the lingo I wanted to explain: I am not the photographer!!!
This is Brooke. She is the tall, redheaded, musical, motivated, entrepreneurial, skills-to-pay-the-bills, photographer. She is also my sister.

Do we look alike? Have [...]

*I don’t have my two photo’s to show–yet. Oh boy did I work on them. The effort, has been discouraging, self revealing, time consuming, and ultimately rewarding. Yet I have nothing to show! I am not giving up, just asking for an extension. Hopefully that gives more people time to try. In the meantime please [...]

* Post Edit: I dug this out of the many drafts of things I had written and hadn’t posted. It was written a couple of months ago, but it came to mind again today. Sometimes I write things that I need to reread because I should probably listen to my own advice more often. I [...]

Cjane wrote this today about how being a mom is like Groundhog day.
At first, I was set to agree, but then I remembered:
Yesterday we turned our sidewalk into a zoo. The giraffe went blind (too close to the sun up there…so he has to wear glasses.)

The Elephant is going through a rebellious phase and keeps [...]

*Previously Posted here

“You get what you get, and you don’t throw a fit!”–a five year old once told me, and a seriously underpaid kindergarten teacher once told him.
Catchy isn’t it? You may want to remember it next time you are divvying out fruit snacks amongst four year old’s who only want the red ones. It [...]

You’ve heard me whining about how hot it is in Hawaii.
Nod head yes.
One of my complaints has been that most clothing I have needs some sort of extra coverage somewhere. I am not just talking about modesty here. Who wants to see the deep depths of my armpits? No one.
So layering happened. Everyone thought layering [...]

My mother called me this week and in between some serious news, and some light chatter, she slipped in a little, “And by the way, you spelled break wrong.”
Hmmmmm. Maybe that is why I get very few comments here. People are sitting on their twitching fingers wanting to tactfully tell me that I can’t spell. [...]

My mind has been surging forward lately.  Mentally I have broken through the dense haze that could have been the heat spell, could have been the hormones, and could have just been life.
I am seeing, enjoying, feeling, laughing more.
Somehow, my body has been left miserably behind.
Is it really possible, that I am growing something inside [...]