My Thanksgiving Post

This post is dedicated to my friend, Tammy Brocker. She always encourages me to write, especially when I don’t want too!
I’ve had a lot of great Thanksgivings in my life…and a few not so great. With the holiday coming up very soon, I was chatting with my friend about the perfect Thanksgiving, who [...]

My Daisy Dog

A lot of people have told me they don’t understand the relationship some people have with their pets; including mine.  “Why do you have a picture of your dog/horse/duck on your desk?”  ”You act like your dog etc. is part of your family.”  For people that have never been around animals, like I have, this is a [...]

I Can’t Complain

I’m sitting on my balcony, looking at the full moon hanging over the mountains.  It’s a beautiful summer evening.  The breeze is blowing, the mountains look majestic; just as described in our country’s patriotic songs they are shroud in purple and pinks as the day has come to an end.  So I sit on my balcony in the desert [...]

Pretty Girls and Wildflowers go Together

“I like to see you pickin’ wildflowers, pretty girls and wildflowers go together.”  It was a typical hot and humid southern missouri day.  The air was heavy, it practically sat on your shoulders and sweet too: the smell of honeysuckle drifted up from the creek.  I had just got back from the east pasture after picking wildflowers to put [...]

Of Monkeys and Astronauts

As a child he always had an interest in outer-space.  Like all little boys he dreamt of space travel and walking on the moon.  In high school he talked about dark matter and time travel through black holes…but as he grew older, by the time he had to chose a major in college, he never thought he had the intelligence, let alone [...]

Drowning in Space

Lacking the willpower to save his own life he lets fatigue set in.  From his shoulders to his biceps to the crook of the elbows to the palm of his hands and all of his ten fingers; his muscle fibers fail to contract. And at that moment he decides his own fate: to be sucked [...]

Sleeplessness and Final Exams

April and May were months filled with presentations, group projects, and final exams.  But I couldn’t be happier these months are over, bringing a close to my fourth year at University.  This also means I only have one more year left as an undergraduate student, and I can start looking towards applying to a myriad of schools around the country that [...]

Nevada: a very rocky start

March 2008 – Reno NV 
I always told myself that I loved Illinois, the corn fields, the smell of livestock every morning before I went to school.  I never wanted to leave.  My grandpa was born, died and even burried in the same town in Southern Illinois.  In fact, my entire family, from cousins my age, to [...]

The Big Move

July 2002 – Columbia ILL
 
 My family has made the decision to move; not just somewhere else in Illinois or even St. Louis, but all the way across the country.  I will be ripped out of the most comfortable spot I have ever been in my entire life and thrown into an alien environment, with no [...]

The House-Sitter’s Bane

For anyone who knows me well, knows I have a bitter, somewhat, cretinous, history with house-sitting.   It all started about two and half years ago when my supervisor, of all people, called a favor of me.  Now I’m the local “go-to-gal” when it comes to house or pet-sitting.  In fact, I ran into my company’s [...]