Author Archives: madranchwife

It snowed.  Thank the Goddess. I know, right?  It’s the flipping Rocky Mountains, the western United States, February, winter.  And an anomaly happened on Sunday and Monday.  Snow.  Albeit not much, but snow. So I’m not complaining.  Not really anyway.  … Continue reading →

Monday:  ~didn’t snow; daughter comes running out of bedroom yelling “mommmmmmm!!  There’s a mouse in my t-shirt drawer!”  I know, right? (By the time all was said and done, the little bastard had traversed EVERY drawer in her ten-drawer dresser, … Continue reading →

Things that have me troubled. (If you say that word enough times–troubled, troubling, trouble–it begins to sound very, very odd.   Try it.  I dare you.) The reasons I’m sitting at my computer this morning and it’s wayyyyyyy before dawn.  Many minutes … Continue reading →

How many children could $989 million feed? Something to ponder this peaceful Sunday morning. Which, by the way, is flirting with the white stuff as we speak.  as I write. But I’m not sure I want to formally acknowledge it as … Continue reading →

Revealed earlier this week was the projected sum of money the infamous Koch brothers intend to spend on the 2016 election cycle.  (And this is not just for the presidential election, but ALL elections and candidates, including primaries.) $989 million … Continue reading →

Some days I wonder about it all.  I ponder the meaning of life.  The meaning of my life.  Why am I here?  What am I doing?  Am I doing enough?  What more could I be doing–to contribute to those around … Continue reading →

The Mittster’s not runnin’ the race after all. I’m crushed I tell you.  Simply crushed.  I’m not sure what will lift my spirits out of the doldrum-like depths they have plummeted to upon reading this juicy tidbit of tidbits just … Continue reading →

I mean seriously Mother Nature. What the flipping heck? Why does the Northeast get all the snow and winter and blizzards and such???? They don’t even want it anymore. We’re dying out here West.  Dying for snow I tell you. … Continue reading →

No, I’m not going to write about the esteemed, former, Governor, Rick Perry.  Though his name shall (hopefully) forever be linked with that one little word.   He and Brittney Spears, eh?  Oh Lord, now I’ve got that ear worm going … Continue reading →

I actually had to stop and sit down and sort of rewind what I’d just heard yesterday morning.  Because it was simply too odd.  Surely I didn’t hear what I thought I just heard. Mitt Romney for President???? Again Mitt?  … Continue reading →