Last year, I became fascinated with the Presidential pardoning of two lucky turkeys who would not, in fact, be executed in the name of feeding some huge family for Thanksgiving. These two fortuitous fowl (a main turkey and a back-up) would instead live out their days being adored, petted, and used as the Grand Marshals […]
10 Times I’m Glad Social Media Wasn’t Around
I have this love/hate relationship with social media, as I’m sure we all do. I LOVE seeing friends from the past having babies, posting funny things about their kids or jobs or people who annoy them, and keeping up with the lives of people whom I love but can’t see all the time. As the […]
I Was a Wedding Registry Disaster
“Do we get dessert tonight? How about some crème brulee?” My husband Jeff is nothing if not a jokester, though this is long-running inside joke has run its course. He refers, of course, to the wedding registry disaster of 2006. I have no idea what I thought marriage would be like when, at 26, engaged, […]
I Don’t Want to Be Famous: Thoughts on the 49th Annual CMAs
Last night, like millions of other people, I watched the 49th Annual CMAs (Country Music Association Awards). Many thoughts ran through my head…Which guy is Florida, and which one is Georgia? Wow, did country-Katy-Perry crash this party? Oh, that’s Kacey Musgraves. Why is Darius Rucker dressed like a Storm Trooper? Can Carrie Underwood be more […]
Why You Should Do a Family Halloween Costume
Halloween is just around the corner, and if your kids are like mine, they’ve been planning for months what costume they’ll don as they zip around the neighborhood ringing doorbells, asking for candy, and being startled by teenagers in gorilla masks. Perhaps you’re a Pinterest mom who is all about having perfect handmade costumes for […]
Targeted Marketing Fail Part 3…This Keeps Happening
Y’all, it just so happens that, on my ONE-YEAR BLOGIVERSARY (this is a thing…I’ve been writing here for a whole year now!), a little magazine was dropped into my mailbox, and the ridiculous targeted marketing people have somehow missed again. I’m not sure what they believe about my glamorous life here in Arkansas, but I’m not above […]
Carrie on Parenting: Mama Tried
Despite my Sunday learning, Towards the bad, I kept turning. ‘Til Mama couldn’t hold me anymore. And I turned twenty-one in prison doing life without parole. No one could steer me right but Mama tried, Mama tried. Mama tried to raise me better, but her pleading, I denied. That leaves only me to blame […]
How to Be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant, Part 5: Taping the Show
Have you read my previous posts on “How to Be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant”? If you’d like to read this story from the beginning, check out Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. My long journey to Wheel of Fortune began with trying out in a Knoxville, TN farmers’ market, getting in trouble […]
How to Be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant, Part 4: Heading to Hollywood
Have you read my previous posts on “How to Be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant”? If you’d like to read this story from the beginning, check out Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. I left Round 2 of tryouts in a Knoxville hotel ballroom not knowing if I’d made it to the show or not. […]
How to Be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant, Part 3.5: Don’t Be THIS Guy
If you’re here, then you’re curious about the fact that I, a normally friendly, funny girl who makes friends everywhere…would choose a nemesis in WOF auditions. I discussed this in Part 3 of “How to be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant.” But I did, and here’s why. Two of my fellow competitors were a late-20s/early-30s guy and […]
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