The Mother Ranch Blog

I’m very aware (again) of how I often I don’t take into account my own wants or needs, not for the important stuff anyway. Anyone who knows me, knows I’m upfront and out loud about, say, how my living...

My brother Michael and I, August, my 50th birthday. The scary issue is the tiny brown spot under my left eye (as you're looking at the pic), on my cheekbone. It's about the size of two pen dots.

It...

We met at a whitewater kayaking roll session. His first memory of me was me laughing my head off in the pool. My first memory of him was at the Mexican restaurant we would go to after, he was like a s...

Laura Longtail's boy/girl twins, born a week ago.

In a week's time, we had three sets of boy/girl twins, lovely!

Brad was out working on the birthing center this Saturday when he heard the low gur...

I've never drawn anything as a comic but decided to give it a try—to be brave, move forward, out of my perfectionism, and into exploration and play. Sometimes play is hard!

This is about a yucky time...

On Valentine's Day I was journaling and the idea for this came to me. I thought it would be fun to use it with my signature at the bottom of blog posts.

I want to keep showing you how ideas morph a...

Snickers: Drama Queen Extraordinaire!

Well you guys, Monday, March 2, 2020 came and went and Snickers still has shown zero signs of being pregnant.

Again.

For the third year in a row.

Now, due dat...

You guys have heard me talk a little about NeurOptimal Neurofeedback, something I offer here at the ranch. After the accident with Celita, I started doing neurofeedback every morning as a piece of m...

Monday, 2:45am: I'm staring at my phone on the bedside table, watching Laura Longtail, who seems to be searching for something. Weird.

2:48am: Ok, something isn't right. Did she have a baby and it ...

^{I sketched this in pen recently, it may turn into something, it may not. Either way is okay.}

I almost always sketch in pen now, it forces me to accept the imperfections. I used to sketch in pencil so...