Hey, Cristy from DoubleKnotted—you won the essential oil giveaway. Email me at camille(at)archiveslives(dot)com with your address so I can pass it along to Jami who can pass along the bottle of lavender goodness to you. ************************* My mother-in-law gave me … Continue reading
Being back in Arizona has not been good for me. I have been snippy and irritable and altogether unpleasant pretty much since the day I got here. What’s the matter with me? All semester I wanted nothing more than for … Continue reading
You know how when you’re single, looking for someone to date—being on the proverbial “prowl,” if you will—and you get vibes from a person of the opposite sex (or the same sex if you’re gay; I am an equal-opportunity blogger), … Continue reading
The other day I drove to Montana in my new (to me) Jetta for a little bonding time, and a very bad thing happened. Luckily (or not) for you, I captured the unfortunate event on digital recording: I was feeling … Continue reading
So the universe threw me a bone. And as I was sitting there hunched over, gnawing on it with slobbery jowls and menacing growls (nobody wants to bother me while I’m gnawing on bones), the universe sauntered right up to … Continue reading
A few weeks ago I was required to write a six page autobiographical piece about someone else. I know…”autobiographical” kind of means “written by oneself about oneself,” but my professor said that usually those kind of essays get too confessional … Continue reading
All my life, all I’ve ever wanted has been Lasik™. Okay, not really. When I was a kid, I really really wanted glasses, so much so that I might have even lied on the eye exam (foolish, foolish girl). Mom? … Continue reading