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News to me
I don’t watch the news anymore – ever. I don’t have time in the morning, I don’t have time at night, and so I just don’t do it. I mean, I hear things – but I don’t know the stories. I catch snippets – but don’t know the details. Currently, I have no idea what…
Specs
When I was a little girl riding my bike over the adobe hills on the outskirts of Montrose, Colorado, and throwing dry ice bombs into the canal behind the house across the street, and trespassing into various fields in the name of bedlam, my Uncle Chester was busy being a ROCKET SCIENTIST at NASA. No…
It’s good to be a Parsons
For the past several years, Thanksgiving has been the occasion of the Parsons’ Family Christmas Picture. We usually get some great outtakes – but never so amazing as this. Does anyone know what’s happening here? Anyone? Anyone? Because I have no recollection of this moment. But clearly, Swayze was wrong: SOMEBODY puts Baby in a…
Nashville
Some of my best moments have been in this town. But also, some of my hardest. Isn’t that the way it goes? The joy and pain are always intermingled. It’s impossible to separate them – the laughter and the tears – because life cannot be compartmentalized like a preschooler’s cubby wall. There is always something…
When the sun goes down
Last night I had a dream that Kenny Chesney and a completely bald Keith Urban wanted to hang out with me. Actually, to be specific, Kenny asked if he could drive my car, and I was like, “CAN YOU EVER” – which is weird because I generally distrust men in necklaces. So Kenny, Keith, and…
On second thought
Today’s blog was deleted due to the unnecessary amount of drama it was going to cause. I’ve got enough going on – I don’t know why I was inviting more emotional turmoil. If you missed it, you’re just fine. I think it kicked a lot of ass, but it probably wasn’t the most tactful of…
What’s next
I struggle with the question, “What am I doing with my life?” I always have. And with each passing day, week, year, I am no closer to finding the answer – I am learning to just take one day at a time. However, even though I might not know what I am doing with my…
It’s a wonder I have any friends at all
I’ve got some big stuff going on – some changes afoot, some news to report. All in good time, little ducklings. So instead, today, I bring you A Fake Interview With Myself. Fake… and yet… so real… Hi Annie. Oh hey, you! So nice to see you – you’re looking pretty awesome these days. Stop…
Josh and Meg have a new duo name
Awwww, yeah! How’s about that – Troubled Annie, for the wind! Listen to some of their new stuff here. “Be Mine” is so catchy, it’s practically SARS.
Let’s talk about:
The comments that you left in response to Thursday’s blog I was blown away by a couple of things: 1) the TRUTH that was so evident in so much of what you were saying, and 2) the HONESTY about something that isn’t easily summed up in a cliché phrase. I love that so many of…