Yellow Dog/Bleeding Heart

The 10 Best Things About Tulsa 1. CHEAP Real Estate 2. QT 3. Running into someone you know no matter where you go 4. Swan Lake 5. Braum's Market 6. Oil Mansions 7. Downtown 8. Lunch with the "gramps" at ABears 9.  Rainy nights 10. It will always be home  The 10 Best Things About DC 1. The Metro 2. The feeling you  get standing in the middle of the National Mall 3.   Kogod Courtyard 4. Ben’s Chili Bowl 5.   The smoothies in the upstairs corner of Union Station 6.   Parades 7. Kogod Corner Market NW E & New Jersey 8. The dollhouse in the Museum of American History 9. Cleveland Park 10. That my best DC friend's last name is Love ... seriously, it is!

      This really doesn't seem like that long ago.  Last week maybe?  and now ... Congratulations my beautiful boy!                                                                        Love,                                                                                           Mom

Some say love requires commitment.  I think it is quite the opposite. Love is a fluid choice; one you make an infinite number of times – though if you are truly blessed it is always the same person. I have loved someone enough to allow them to walk away even though I possessed the power to say “don’t” … or “ stay ” … or other sincere words like and “ love ” and “ need ” … how very badly I needed him to make me feel safe; to continue to be the only person I ever trusted to protect me.   But in that moment love meant goodbye .   Ironically, I have chosen to love the same way many times over.   And that is ok because love is not about what you need or they need; or what is right or wrong. It is loving someone so much that in the end, just having been loved is enough. To have shared the moments; to have felt their heartbeat at your cheek at the exact moment in your life when you needed to feel life; to share the same breath with them when ...

“ When we talk we give ourselves away. We reveal our true character in a picture which is more true and realistic than anything an artist can do for us. “   Dr Ralph C. Smedley

Here's another teaser (designed mostly to hold me accountable for posting new content)! The very first job I applied for; the one that was a total fluke; the one where the Director said I pretty much had her at, "I understand you're looking for a ..."; the one where the job was mine just as soon as the Director could tame the politics and take a breath ... remember?  Well, yesterday I learned that she has been arrested and charged with some mega heavy duty felonies committed via her position. Damn. Ya suck up to someone for months and they go and ruin it by making a bomb threat. Dontcha hate it when that happens? Stay tuned for the full story and even more stories of ridiculous situations that could only happen to me.

Stay tuned for an epic account of my battle with the cannoli. It was gruesome - every dish was dirtied; chocolate chips were charred; Cinnamon was shed and the ricotta totally turned traitor. Seriously. I fought the cannoli and the cannoli won. Stay tuned!

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