The Mother Ranch Blog

My birthday was this past week! My Aunt Katy had a birthday dinner at her house with favorite foods and German Chocolate cake! Yum. ManChild remembered the canvases that I was looking at the week befo...

Happy Saturday morning!

In my Craft Your Talk class we are telling little short stories and I thought I would record them to practice getting in front of a camera to speak. Here are the ones I've don...

Oooooo boy. I am "reading" (listening to the author read it through Audible actually) a book that is really speaking to me right now. It's going to be one of those that I will buy and keep in my libra...

Oh. My. Gawd. I have a computer bug. Literally. Look!

This is one of the teeny tiny ants that fall into my shirt and bite me. Except this one was on my computer. I went to squish it and hit...glass...

I was taking Lucy for her morning walk in the forest on Tuesday when she stopped abruptly and carefully reached out her nose to smell something while her entire body was poised to leap away. I peeked ...

I was thinking about boundaries today after hanging out with a new friend who had been telling me a story about exploding in fury after being walked upon for a long time. Ugh. I totally get this. A lo...

This week I find myself feeling a lot of feels and because of that being really really tired by the time I head to bed. Sleeping like a dead woman. Getting up and doing it all over again.

What about...

I've been thrown off all week by the July 4th holiday falling on Monday! What day is it today? Who am I?

We did go to a downtown festival and honestly I think our favorite part was this:

Isn't that a ...

 What an interesting week this was. It started out with last Friday's Roe v Wade news that brought my blood to a boil. Sunday was a pro choice march in a town close by, organized by a high school stud...

We had started the pro-choice march but it was quiet where we were walking. Suddenly I heard her from way back in the crowd, a strong, sure voice—deep from her core called out, “MY BODY!” and the crow...