It's been a summer of going. . .first to Charlotte, then Tulsa, then Forks and Seattle/Sammimish, then Dallas. . .and now coming home ( Read more... )

It's almost 11 PM here, so I'm just under the wire for keeping my resolution to post every day intact ( Read more... )

A friend of mine said something last night that's stuck with me all night, and is still in my head today.

Based on so many experiences in my life, it's true--with a capital "T":

Things are never as good as we hope they're going to be, and never as bad as we're afraid they're going to be.

Tomorrow will be 8 years since my husband Darrell died--at least one of my LJ buds actually met him, and a lot of you have heard of him ( Read more... )