LOADS of changes and blessings since my last post...

My Dad got better and even drove out to TN from TX to see me last month! This is HUGE - when I still lived in TX he always expected me to make the then 2 hour trip - now it's 15 and he came HERE!

I'm back in school to finish my bachelor's degree and LOVING it! My major is English and my minor is in Appalachian Studies. Next will be grad studies for a major in Storytelling!! I also plan on doing add-ons in...

I got a call yesterday telling me that my
Dad is in the hospital. He says he's feeling better, but my gut says this is more serious than what is being presented.

He has walking pneumonia, and went into the hospital because of severe chills. When he got there they said his white blood count was way up. He thinks it's due to anemia - he's admitted to having something bleeding out in his small intestine, sadly, can't or won't give more info on that.

His mother...

Things are improving out here in beautiful east TN. My Aunt is able to drive herself around now, which is a huge boon to her sense of independence!! The unhappy soul was going stir-crazy.

DH and I are actively looking for better jobs, and he wants to drop some serious weight as quickly as possible. He's gained 50 pounds or so this past year and is miserable. So miserable, he's willing to give raw another try. (to get it straight, he's married to me = so he has his own...

I've had my hands full as of late, so hardly posting on here currently. I'm online maybe once a week or so...

On April 15th, I started a job outside of the house, and on April 16th, my 81 year old Aunt fell on her front porch and has a compound fracture in her left shoulder joint. Soooooo...most of my days since then have been either at work or caring for her on my off days. Today I am home, exhausted, and will likely be at her place tomorrow. My job is physically demanding, but...

who you might have been." That quote is by George Eliot, and I found it engraved into a brass bookmark while in college for the first time in my mid 30s - a single mom of three young teens. I still have that bookmark.

I had wanted to be a teacher since my own mid-teens, but was pursuing a path of psychology instead due to hard knocks in life. I wanted to rescue people who were where I had unhappily been. But it was not to be. The coursework ate my lunch...and I went back...