Here’s My Winter X Games 15 Story

Phewww. The Winter X Games 15 are over and I’m just now feeling as though I have my life back. As locals, many of us do not  prepare for the impact the four days makes on our everyday lives, sweeping us away into the world of the extreme. This year the X Games transported us to an entirely new...

Escaping With My Children To The Desert

My mother answered my phone call and listened intently as I told her that I was going through another low with my writing. I read to her the first line in Leo Tolstoy’s book, Anna Karenina, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”. I whined to her that I was...

Enduring Airplanes to Visit Grandma

We are flying once again to visit Grandma Nicky in Florida. I don’t know how we are going to pay for it but I know that I am needing to get away. Wade is all for it. He loves those ten days he blessedly gets of peace and quiet. To his credit, he is usually refreshed and ready for us by the time that...