DIVA Inspired Cobra Arms .380 Pistol

With much anticipation, and dread, I finally made my way around to Lone Star Guns Gallery and Gear to pick up my COBRA ARMS Diva inspired .380. A lot of talk has been circulating amongst us women about the delay in delivery and the chatter increased significantly once they finally started getting into the hands of the Divas. There were a lot of unhappy women. There has been several articles...
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Heat isn’t hot. It’s hell.

Texas is undergoing it’s 30th + day of over 100 degree heat. It’s been months since we’ve had rain. Where I’m sitting, there are three fans blowing on me, and I have my feet in a bucket of water. Our indoor temperature right now, at 12:31 p.m.? 111. That’s beyond comprehension when you have to be in it more than running from one air conditioned building to...
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Another Chapter

Today I lost my house. When the movers left, I stood before an empty space that had been my home for 12 years and I felt…nothing. I wasn’t sad or mad.  I had never been ‘permitted’ to make the house a home so it never felt like mine. Fixing it up, or improvements of any kind had always been met with ‘it’s just a crappy trailer house’. And true it was,...
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A Ziji Life – Action and Adventure

Thanks to my new friend and find Ana Neff I’m on a mission to regain the zeal, strength and endurance I once had, but with a brand spanking new ‘I can conquer anything I set my mind to’ attitude. It’s not like I’m not a very independent work-a-holic who thrives on movement, but my brain has been all wrong. I like going. I like doing. And I really like it when...
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Up and Down

One foot in front of the other. Just keep moving forward. It’s all I can do when I hurt like this.
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Running on empty

Woke up to sun shining and a glorious warm day. I sprang up, put my boots on and headed outside. As the dogs raced with me I felt that twinge of fear come over me and I couldn’t shake it off. The darkness washing over me yesterday didn’t leave overnight like I planned. By the time I got the horses fed and rounded up the dogs, I practically flew back to the house. I didn’t wake...
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