Wrangler Dani

The political campaign is over, and I am revisiting the concept of free time. I feel like it’s the first day of summer break and I’m not quite sure what

I can’t contain myself enough to write anything beautiful today. I can’t think about anything but the unbelievable, terrifying, uniquely wonderful reality that we just bought a house – not

This morning, when I got in the shower, I didn’t exactly have house-cleaning on my mind. We’d just gotten back from a long working weekend, and I was thinking about

I stole this idea from Val, because she is the best at lists. Also, I know that today is January 9th and so this is pretty late to the year-end

There are many things that have been frustrating (or maybe, just unrealistically expected, if we’re fair) about this move. I kinda thought we’d finally make the break and voila! a

“Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learn about great food by finding the best there is, whether simply or luxurious.

This was our basic itinerary: View Larger Map Here’s where we stopped: Yakima: Miner’s Drive-In. Biggest burgers you’ve ever seen, great curly fries. No atmosphere, other than ancient drive-thru, but

Life’s been stretching, pulling at the edges, allowing things to fall through the tiny fraying holes that we’ve been too busy to patch. Uncertainty made us fretful, work demands made

When I was a teenager, our church started doing an “All-Church Campout” every year during Labor Day weekend. It was a little country church, and that meant that literally the

Our house, the one we’re trying to buy, has the hiccups. Depending on how this story turns out, it might be a hilarious, endearing sidenote about a lengthy process and