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This post contains some affiliate links. So if you’re ordering anyway, might as well use them and shoot a few cents my way! I thought I’d do a little series of posts on what I’ve been doing the last 4 months of quarantine. Let’s kick it off with what I’ve bought. Air Frier Lid forContinue reading “Quarantine Shopping”

Recently, following the deaths of Ahmaud Arbury, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, it feels like a real turning point in our country when it comes to racial reconciliation. We have seen protests. Riots. Speeches. Sermons. Conversations. Free movies on Amazon Prime. Books on this topic by black authors on best seller lists. And what I’veContinue reading “I Have a Lot to Learn”

Tonight, the kids set up a camp site in the front yard. When they asked me to come watch the sunset and see the moon, I almost said no. I had paperwork to finish, dishes to wash, and a house to pick up. I’m so behind that I’ll never catch up. And then I feltContinue reading “So We Laid in the Grass”

Every once in a while, I feel like I have a moment to just catch my breath. To sit and think and pray and just be. It doesn’t happen very often, but when it does, it feels like holy ground. Tonight the house was dark and silent. The kids and the cat were all sleepingContinue reading “A Moment of Rest”

Tomorrow, I will start back at the office just for a couple of days a week. It’s crazy to think that it’s been two months of quarantine at home. When it all started, I told myself it would probably be two weeks. Even now, it certainly does not feel anything close to normal and theContinue reading “COVID-19 Thoughts (Part 3)”

In August, I landed myself in the hospital with a lodged kidney stone and septic infection. I had never had a kidney issue in my life. They said they saw multiple smaller stones in my kidneys at that time. I’ve had a baby with no drugs…that whole kidney stone fiasco was 10 times more painful.Continue reading “Clear Kidneys”

In an effort to avoid gaining any more of the Quarantine 15 I’ve been working on, I’ve gotten back to watching macros and tracking my food. So when my friend, Amy, posted some enchiladas that used zucchini in place of tortillas, I was intrigued. I was also skeptical because a New Mexican doesn’t play whenContinue reading “Recipe Card: Zucchini Chicken Enchiladas”

This lady has lived her life 3 against 1, because she made the three of us do ridiculous things like wash the manure off our hands before we ate, turn in papers with proper punctuation, not get killed by hooky cows, fill up water tubs even when they were still 1/5 full, wear ironed shirts,Continue reading “Taking Grenades: Happy Mother’s Day!”

Tonight, I ran 2.23 miles down my dirt road to honor Ahmaud Arbrey. But that’s not enough. I know that I’ve got to do more. I’ve got to pray. I’ve got to speak out about injustice and racism anytime I see it and not only when it’s on the news. I’ve got to talk toContinue reading “Tonight I Ran”

“The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” The fact that a 25 year old black man who went out on a run can be hunted down in broad daylight because two white men “think he might be a burglar” is beyond me. His killers have not beenContinue reading “Ahmaud Arbrey”