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The Night The Moon Shone Over Ballinger, Texas File this under Scrapes with Johnny Law. Mostly involving automobiles and other people’s bad decisions. My family had a green and white Covair Greenbrier SportsVan. It was really big, and slow, but could carry 11 high school football players of the Mighty Winters Blizzards. At least 11.…

My Doctor Gives Me Seizures – ECT Originally published ProfessorPuig.com on March 7, 2020 Personal Experience with Electroconvulsive Therapy, or ECT Content warning: ECT, needles, intravenous lines (including photo of a hand with an IV), some suicidal ideation MY DOCTOR GIVES ME SEIZURES Sorry; you have to understand, I’ve always wanted to start a conversation…

Since 2016, I have received Electroconvulsive Therapy, also known as shock therapy or electroshock therapy, and made famous in the One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. One does an index series of treatments, thrice a week for a week or so, then backs down to once a week, then every other week, and so forth,…

Let’s face it, New Year’s Resolutions don’t have the best of reputations. An embarrassing number of people give up on their resolutions within a week, much less a month, and hardly anyone cares past that same time span. But I care. I’m a little bit obsessed with setting goals and attempting to tackle them. Blogging,…

Hello, friends and family, and happy belated new year.  And, as always, happy plants! I like to review my new year’s resolutions at least monthly, and I’ve recommitted to a few goals – including gardening and blogging.  I love sharing details of my garden efforts, business efforts, teaching efforts… and I figure this blog is the…

I think this is really fun math to work through, calculating what it would take to reach various income goals, but not everyone in my life (husband, parents, siblings…) think goal math is great fun to talk about. So Imma blog about it, and if you choose to read – yay! But if you think…

We have many pretty kitties here 🙂 

Hello, Friends; I’m reading (ok, listening to, but that totally counts as reading) a book called the 10X Rule, essentially suggesting that you multiply goals by 10 to really get things going.  Roughly, if you shoot for the moon you’ll land amongst the stars.  Not technically correct and potentially dangerous, but then again, that’s kind…