Monthly Archives: May 2019

Over the past couple weeks (and the last ten years), I’ve started cataloging advice….lessons….whatever you want to call it. I know this isn’t a comprehensive list and I am confident that I will continue to add to it but for now, here’s a start that I hope will be helpful for any teenage girl. 

So here goes……

Don’t let anyone tell you your dream. You decide what you want and fight like hell for it.

Marry the guy you want to marry. Or don’t…..you decide what works for you.

Go after the job you really want….even if it means you’ll have to eat ramen noodles and mac & cheese. Do what you love. You spend more hours at work than anywhere else.   Make sure it’s where you want to be.

Don’t take ibuprofen on an empty stomach.

As I sat on the edge of the waterbed, the disc jockey for KSSN announced news that changed my world.  Time stopped for a few minutes and I cried while sitting there on the edge of the bed.  Keith Whitley was dead at the age of 33 years old from an apparent alcohol overdose. 

Mother’s Day is just not that simple. Take it from my daughter who we adopted through the foster care system when she was four years old. I couldn’t wait to be part of the exclusive Mom club that had evaded me for so long.

Music has always been a huge part of our relationship.  It started way back in high school as two best friends would sit and listen to Lionel Richie and Alabama, singing and laughing, bearing  our teenage souls in the  windowsill of Kelly’s dormer in her parents’ house on Coolhurst in Sherwood. 

Over one-third of our food crops are pollinated by bees.  Without bees, we could lose many of the crops we love to eat.