If Fun won’t come to you, go to it. — Day 6 of my 31-Day Fun Challenge (I know, I know. I’ve missed a few days. But I’ve been busy with fun.) Last Sunday was the final day of Shaunta Grimes’s Fresh Start Refresh live class. It was amazing and motivating. But it made me realize something. …

These ideas might make you LOL. — Day 5 of my 31-Day Fun Challenge Grab a pack of SuperSoakers and have a showdown with your kids. Throw your friends and neighbors a backyard prom for adults. Set up sprinklers in your front yard and invite your neighborhood to run through it. Bring your grill into the front yard and have an impromptu block party…

Fun sometimes comes in the form of an explosion! — Day 4 of my 31-day fun challenge. My town doesn’t allow personal fireworks within city limits. Most cities don’t in the hopes of preventing house fires, instead organizing fireworks productions at a central location in town. Mine held theirs early last Saturday night. That doesn’t stop kids from running around at midnight setting off exposions and running…

Start by making a fun list. — Day 3 of my 31-day fun challenge. Adults think they have a duty to be responsible, dependable, reliable or we aren’t doing ‘adulting’ right. But what about fun? Don’t we have a duty to have fun? I’d argue that we do. When we have more fun, we improve our mental and physical well-being. …

A near head-on collision with a combine shouldn’t be funny. — Day 2 of my 31-day fun challenge. My niece is expecting her first child and I received an invitation to her babyshower to be held in a small town in southwest Oklahoma. Most of my husband’s family live within 30 minutes of this town. …

Day 1 in my quest to be more fun — It has been HOT in Texas. I mean “blister your bare feet, and don’t go out after 10 AM” hot. Triple digits for a week hot — thermometer heat. High humidity accompanied that heat. Sometimes it’s felt like 115F. A killing heat — literally. Imagine my apprehension when my husband…

I begin my journey to becoming more fun. — A few years ago, a group of women I used to teach with invited me to go on their annual ‘girls’ trip. Seventeen of us rented a house together in San Antonio and drove down for a 4-day adventure. …

In the south, don’t even suggest any other kind! Growing up in the south, Thanksgiving meant having turkey and dressing. Traditionally, the dressing had to be cornbread dressing made with buttery, savory cornbread. When I was a teenager, my father was stationed at West Point, New York. …

This recipe is so easy, you’ll never buy boxed again. — The holidays are approaching and its time to think about the menu. Here in the south, cornbread dressing is prefered. Boxed cornbread mixes are usually sweet and make the dressing sweet, too. That is definitely undesirable. Luckily, making cornbread is so quick and easy to do that you don’t need…