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rambling monologues about my life
It happens every year as we end our post-Christmas trip to Texas. We roll back into town, bloated and full of great Texas food and resolutions to do better. I can’t blame it all on one week of eating, but what a week of eating it is - join me, won’t you, in the gastronomical [...]
I think we all know by now that my husband is taking over the internets, one website at a time. And people, I have finally succumbed. He’s very persuasive.
What I mean exactly is that many months ago he set me up a tumblr site (I’m really not sure that’s the proper terminology. They’re also called [...]
Yesterday was fifteen years.
As long as we’ve known each other, Bryan has kept track of the age of our relationship. Four months, he said, that’s longer than I’ve ever dated anyone else. What do we do now?
And now fifteen years. And who would have thought that we would have spent the better part of our [...]

I love that moment when the lights go down and the curtain comes up. I love it whether I'm on stage or in the audience, because either way, the story is about to begin. I see life as a series of scenes: some with fabulous costumes, some with witty lines, others that I wish I could edit out. This is where I try to find the stories, pin down the scenes just right.