The Splendor of the Woods

I'm so excited to participate in Brian's Thankful Thursday prompt today. While there's a lot of $#!* going on in my life right now, I am thankful for more than a few things. First, I'm thankful Entrepreneur has some back pain relief from the epidural steroid injection he got yesterday. Big gratitude for that. Second, …

September Photo Challenge: Road Trip

Here it is the end of September and once again it's time for PJ's photo challenge. This month's prompt was Road Trip. And, I went exactly one place this month outside of my normal routine so the decision was easy. A high school friend of Entrepreneur from California took a "road trip" to Missouri (by …

Respected women, part 2

On September 15th, I wrote a post about my maternal grandmother and how I respected her efforts in raising a family during the Great Depression. On the other side of Missouri, there was another woman who was doing the same thing. She is my paternal grandmother and lived outside of St. Louis in the Wentzville …

Respected women, part 1

Life is hard now. Inflation is nowhere under control, supply chains are still messed up and with the current financial and political situation in our country, people are struggling on all fronts. According to Bloomberg.com, 20 million Americans cannot pay their utility bills and the amount they owe has doubled since before the pandemic. That's …

There’s a (deleted) app for that

Six months ago, Entrepreneur signed me up for our auto insurance's safe driver app. The carrot was if I "proved" I was a safe driver, there would be a discount on our renewal premium in September. I was less than thrilled but agreed to try it for six months. Notice, HE didn't offer to put …