I love hotels. I love going to hotels. I REALLY LOVE going to hotels with my husband. I REALLY, REALLY LOVE going to hotels with my husband for our anniversary! Way back in July, we did just that! And I took a bunch a pictures. I got busy and forgot to post them. I came […]
Travel
Singing Water Vineyards Day Date
We are in the dog days of summer 2020. In any normal year, it’s tough to find something to do in the heat. Yesterday, the forecast called for 105 degrees in San Antonio. ONE. ZERO. FIVE. Sigh. The pandemic has made it hard to navigate everything. And going on dates has been the very last […]
Date Night in the Hill Country
Date Night? What’s that? I’ve got too much to do with the kids and all their activities……blah, blah, blah. Let me tell you a little secret. If you don’t carve out a little space for each other, you will regret it. And you will be in a better frame of mind and less stressed out! […]
The Mercantile
I took a trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma a couple of weeks ago. I went with my boy to tour the campus of University of Tulsa. It was on his final list of colleges to attend in the fall. I was looking forward to seeing Tulsa again. It had probably been about twenty years since I’d […]
De Rigueur of Kilgore
Style. Are you born with it? Do you acquire it over time? Who inspired your sense of style? For me, I know that I was influenced by my mother. She would never go out of the house without her lipstick. When she wasn’t wearing nursing scrubs at my dad’s office, she loved to wear suits […]
There’s No Place Like Home
I just got back from a trip to my hometown of Kilgore, Texas. I was there for a little work and a lot of visiting with my family. It rained most of the week. And I’ll never complain about rain after suffering through years of drought but it does put a damper on some things. […]





