Wrangler Dani

I like writing lists – ideas for new adventures, looking back on what I’m grateful for, hope as I teeter on the edge of a new year. Usually, on my

My mom loves tinsel. Every year there is buckets of the stuff floating around the house at Christmas, getting tracked around on snowy boots and caught on the doggie’s tail.

I’m always an early celebrator of Christmas. The first frosts and speckles of snow (or, in California, afternoon fogginess) have me daydreaming of homemade cookies and shiny bows. But my

There’s something so satisfying about putting pen to paper, since I spend most of my working time with the illusion of words on a website or Word document. But, the

Sometimes, as a conservative cowgirl, I find myself feeling unbelievably alone in a world of changing definitions and constant snark. I love old things, I’m stridently patriotic, I want my

This post is sponsored by Grammarly. Sometimes I use Grammarly for proofreading because occasionally, you just need to be reminded that you’re not crazy: English is. I have a problem. I’m basically

My sister-in-law posted this and asked her readers to play along. Since I am a writing-prompt junkie, I readily complied. Here we go: making: Messes and to-do lists and piles

We are in escrow on a house. (YAY!) Our bank statements got sent to some random dude by our lender by mistake (BOO!). It was our last day in Orange

So, we put in an offer on a cute little old house on 13 acres. It got accepted. We had an inspection and quickly realized that wood rot, asbestos and

When we were moving into our new apartment, boxes were exploding all over the house, crumpled paper littered our new carpet and questions were coming from every direction: does this