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Technorati Tags: Corpus Christi,Cole Park,Ribs,Chicken Bones,Remy DuBois,Dog Walks,Father’s Day In defense of my Dawg Daughter, Remy DuBois, she had a tragic beginning. Having made this statement, I am going to reveal one of her disgusting habits. Drum roll, please . . . . . . . . she will eat (almost) anything. She will NOT [...]

It is near noon on Tuesday and I have been searching all morning long for positions suited to my skills. With each passing week, the situation is looking bleak. I am, above all things, an optimist, but my optimism is beginning to waver. This morning when I checked to see if my Request for Payment [...]

It is Saturday evening, the sun is going down on what was a very hot, breezy day on the Third Coast, and I – Ta Da – processed all four Memory boxes. Whittled four to one and recycled two boxes. The small rectangular box replaced the old bible box that held my teenage and early [...]

Since the move to The Flat, and especially since the lay off, I have spent numerous hours going though boxes and paring things down to “my” stuff. I have never been a pack rat and since I have moved like a gypsy my entire life opportunities to cull the stuff come every few years, it [...]

Until April 2008, I had never lived alone. From family to marriage to motherhood, widowed at nineteen one month before motherhood, married again at thirty, divorced at thirty-three, married again at forty-four, and divorced (again!) at fifty-two. I have had so many last name changes it makes me dizzy. When living arrangements with my soon [...]