Chaos + Spanish Moss

Category: Musings

  • siblings and shamrocks

    This is your sign to travel around with your siblings. As adults. No significant others. No kids. Nothing against the family you’ve formed in your adult life, because likely your adult family has filled the holes that your given family dug. You need your chosen family. But your spouse and children of present weren’t the…

  • holiday blackout

    holiday blackout

    St. Nicholas, pray for us. Nope. Scratch that. Pray for ME. And, every other Mom on the planet! We’re all fine and blessed and all those things but…Holiday season is BANANAS!  Here’s an example of a typical December day:  My kids have a different Holiday themed “dress out” day until Dec. 20th; while I was…

  • my Barbie Elegy

    Growing up there were 2 types girls: those who “liked” Barbie and those who “lived” Barbie. Me?? Oh, I was L-I-V-I-N Barbie! The dream houses, the corvettes, the boats, the RV, the clothes-I had it all. So…when I stumbled upon Allan at a fabulously cluttered vintage shop in Brevard, North Carolina called Underground Salvage Co.,…

  • the Dog

    Yes, I still have the Dog. Using “I” instead of “we” because this Dog is mine. I was forewarned that this would be my fate. My children love him but conveniently are unavailable to walk him and play with him “everyday, all day” as promised by the letters and tears that led to the purchase…