Maybe
Sometimes, when I'm trying to go to sleep at night and I want to create a calm mind, I think about string theory. Stick with me here....


Annus Horribilis
2020 was a horrible year. I sat on the COVID committee at work and was overwhelmed daily with calls, text alerts and the amount of...


Louisiana Rain
I had to move to New Orleans to learn to love the rain. As a kid, rain just ruined things. Like parades or field trips or being able to...


Kitchen Capers
We're on a journey to transform my home into Gulf-Coastal Grandmother fishing-cabin chic. First stop: The Kitchen. This is what we...
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[Gulf] Coastal Grandmother
I found myself here, at an intersection in life that presented an opportunity for me to forge a new path. Create the New Kalisa....


Her Story
Read here first She was 55 years old going into the third year of the world-wide pandemic. She worried about plenty of things but cancer...


Protagonist & Narrator
"We experience our life as a story, of which we are both protagonists and narrators..." My local hospital system has apparently taken a...


Time is Fleeting
Today is my mom's 80th birthday. My husband got to experience both of his parents' 80ths but my dad died in his 70s when I was still in...


Retreat
Sometimes when I can't take anymore news of greed and evil and hate, I go for a walk. I walk out into the woods. Among the pines and wild...


It's a Mystery
All this week I've had mill-wide meetings at work. I've been leaving at 6 a.m. and getting home at 7 p.m. Thursday afternoon, Chip texted...