As I have mentioned before, I love trying to bring old things back to life. I am hoping my children may inherit this same love when it is...

I am not sure if it is a strength or a weakness, but I suppose I am a homebody at my core. After four weeks and 4,800 miles, we are...

It was Saturday afternoon, and the house was quiet. Marcee and her sisters had gone to the next town over to buy some building supplies;...

My dad used to tell stories of being a cowboy and driving cattle from one pasture in Texas to another. His stories always started the...

The sun was just starting to rise above the snow covered town of Lander. The snow that had started around midnight left the mountains and...

It was never my intent for this series of posts to be a slide show of our adventure, but the scenery has dominated every moment of this...

It's February 28, and we are up early and out the door. This is the day that I have been looking forward to since we started this trip....

Three days of freezing rain and ice-covered streets in Dallas did not keep us from finding antique malls, comedy clubs, guitar stores,...

We started our adventure to Lander, Wyoming, on Tuesday with a brief side trip to Asheville and an quicker trip to Marcee's allergy...

I am not sure how old you have to be before you don't hear your father's voice when making a decision, but I have been hearing mine a lot...

Hearing that a new Beatles' documentary had been released was like waking up and realizing it was Christmas morning. Ever since that...

Marcee and I are blessed to have a good friend who is also a talented author, editor, and statewide conference co-ordinator and advocate...

When my youngest son was in middle school, he loved speaking in accents. One of my favorite questions to ask him was, "What are the top...

Men by their very nature are problem solvers. They think in a line, or linearly. They start at the beginning of the problem and work...

2021 was a difficult year. Understatement? Maybe the king of all understatements! We lost both of our dogs; we lost friends; we lost...

Now that the holiday season is winding down, and our New Year's resolutions have been made, it is time to get back to one of my first...

Several years ago, I interviewed for a part time job to keep me out of mischief in our new home here in Banner Elk. I went to the...

Some of my earliest memories of Christmas involve going outside on Christmas Eve to see if I could see the Christmas Star. It became a...

Last Monday, on my third trip to the Post Office, I stood in line wondering how many more trips I would be making to our local USPS...

I thought it might be fun to do a music trivia crossword puzzle (hence the name for the post) to do during the holidays. You could do it...