I’m all environmental, right? I mean, I’m not as green as I could be — I use pesticides and I don’t buy the green cleaning products simply because they cost more than I can afford to put in my grocery budget. But I do recycle everything I can, and I recently purchased five canvass grocery [...]
Archive > April 2008
Under the Sea
Way back in 1988, LR’s parents took her to SeaWorld the first summer it opened. She doesn’t really remember much about this trip except that it was very, very hot, her little brother Greg wasn’t with them because he was a baby, and there was a big map of the United States on the [...]
A trip down I-35
After three weeks that included a car wreck and a tornado, LR and Mr. Burt found themselves in dire need of a vacation, and thanked their lucky stars they’d booked a San Antonio getaway for April 17-20. (When, two days before the trip, the clothes dryer konked out with three loads of laundry yet [...]
April showers bring…tornadoes?
LR was dreaming about IMing with a stranger about a topic she can no longer remember, when a sound that didn’t belong to a dream about IM snaked into the dream and distracted her from her IM conversation. Gradually it dawned on her that it was the sound of sirens, and, opening her eyes just [...]