Spring is here!   I’m finally feeling almost back to normal, and now all I want to do is spend a little time in the warm sunshine. A robin has built a nest in our honeysuckle vines beside the garage.  The poor mother bird has a conniption every time we drive up, so we’re trying to respect her space.  Soon, we’ll have four little baby birds to check in on!   We also have opened and started cleaning out the pond.  Plants are coming up off the bottom this weekend if the weather holds…this is the earliest we’ve EVER opened […]

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You may or may not know this, but I can be pretty handy with a set of tools.  Not every DIY project has turned to gold, though, and today I get to tell the world about one or two of them. And you, you lucky dog, you have the opportunity to support me in my podcast debut as a DIY Disasters guest on Down and Dirty with Frank Fontana! Blogging mentor and Chief Killer Tribesman Brian Allain was a guest on Frank’s show about a month ago, and last week he led Frank’s team to my doorstep as if my blog was a […]

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    I’m shaking up the schedule this week…Stay tuned for a special Tuesday edition of River of Thoughts! …and pass the ice cream, please?   Photo credit:  Jamieanne (Creative Commons)

I have never filled out an NCAA bracket. (Of the hundreds of thousands of words I’ve ever typed, that feels the most like “True Confessions”) I haven’t watched college basketball since Larry Bird led Indiana State to a nearly undefeated season.  Until the championship.  He crushed my little nine-year-old heart. I might be the only Hoosier that doesn’t really care about basketball. So when March Madness comes around, I just watch people.  Amusedly.  Some people are truly mad for this season.  No work gets done.  People take days off.  Me?  I would not even know where to begin when trying […]

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Everyone always does Top 10 or Top 5…Well, I’m not everyone. The top 4 posts for the month: Love Song For A Conference – sharing my excitement at attending Jon Acuff’s second Quitter conference Vinyl Fever – Part of Michelle Woodman’s Blog Carnival, a fun remembrance (and lively conversation) of my first music purchase Adoption Found Us – A very awkward video of my eyes following a fly around the room while Mark and I share our adoption story What Can I Do? – The culmination of the seven-part “This is NOT ok” series about the Global Orphan Crisis. Thanks for […]

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