Ya’ll asked for it… So here it is. And you can personally thank my brother Aka – Monkey Mot for this…he got me hooked. FIRST, you need to understand that I rarely work with a recipe, at least not to the letter. So I did a little poking around about ingredients and threw this together in my InstantPot tonight. I was thrilled with how it turned out! Play a little with some of the sweet and savory ingredients and figure out how you like it best. Here are the basics… INGREDIENTS: 1 – 1.5 lbs of thinly sliced sirloin (you can also use ribeye) 1 medium yellow onion – thinly sliced 1-2 ..read more

…so is dating, life and all the other things we do in waking hours. But self-love…that’s going to kill me. Not really… it won’t actually “kill” me…but it is causing me to realize that I never truly practiced it before. Choosing yourself over someone else may be easy for a narcissist …but for an empath its one of the hardest things to learn – and I don’t know if it ever becomes easy. Its been almost 2 years since I took back control of my life after a very unhealthy marriage. During that time I have healed from so many things and learned more about myself than I ever knew in my 4 1/2 decades o ..read more

This article REALLY resonated with me. I Am Single Because One Toxic Relationship Was More Than Enough For Me Battle On I am in a constant battle in my mind to self-protect or to be vulnerable enough to allow someone to love me… because the truth is you can’t fully achieve both at the same time. Being vulnerable is being open… and that means anything can get in – including bad people cleverly masked as angels sent from Heaven. That’s how it happened to me… and only God could help me when the mask came off. I honestly didn’t think I would ever be able to get out, even though I knew ..read more

Pretty Sure It Was Him Yesterday Sadie and I ran into HEB before we set out for our afternoon swimming and visiting with friends at their house. We were running a few minutes late already so by the time we got back to the car – we really needed to get going. We loaded our things in the backseat and I jumped in to start the car & AC…it was blazing hot. Thats when I saw “him”. Or at least I am pretty sure it was him. Who is “him” you ask? Those who know me are saying RIGHT NOW…. “Wait – what…??There was a “him?” Yes, there was a “him.” The Spark “He” was brief, but in a few short w ..read more