November 2012 Blog Posts (3)

Paris lives.  Paris is viscerally and palpably alive.  It is loved, and carefully tended.  Parisians are proud people and they have every right to be as their city is a jewel to be admired and fully experienced.  It seemed a lifetime ago that Allan, her former boss, instructed Lindsey to find an apartment near the Eiffel Tower.  He was unaware that Lindsey had already…

One of the best experiences in the month of October happened to me this year. What led up to the greatest October of my existence began this summer. I guess it actually began in January. But the heart of this story began in August and that is where I will start. 

I had known Doug since January, but until summer arrived, we'd barely talked. There was actually a period of time when none of us saw him for awhile. But, when he reappeared in our lives, things began to change. He…

'Thanksgiving'

The onion tears mixed with the aroma of sage in mama's steamy November kitchen is a memory I'll take with me wherever I go. Grandmas, aunts, cousins, uncles crowding the house in a good way. Football games on in the living room, hunters on the patio talking guns, deer and quail in the cool, fresh air.

We often traded Thanksgiving among families. Oklahoma City one year, Cushing the next. Perry next time around. Later…