Angel Wheeler

Ash

  • What happened when I quit Facebook

    I quit facebook.  It was huge for me.  I think either today, tomorrow, or the next day marks two weeks.  Two weeks! I don’t even know why I did it, except that somewhere in the past few years, months, weeks, or days, when it happened I’m not sure, but at some point, I kind of… Read more

  • You’d better listen.

    This morning I sent this 14 year old off to school. It’s Homecoming here.  Last night there was a bonfire, today a pep rally, tonight a football game, tomorrow a dance. We be busy. So later, I was replying to some comments here on my blog and I ended up clicking on something that took… Read more

  • Decisions, decisions.

    Decisions, decisions.  Thankfully not life or death decisions.  More on the caliber of comfort kind of decisions.  As in “should I do an exercise tape or go to bed and read?”  And along the lines of “I just ate mac and cheese, but I really want some milk toast.”  Do you know what milk toast… Read more

  • Football!!

    Football in Texas is kind of a big deal.  More specifically, small town Friday night high school football in Texas is kind of a big deal.  Especially in my area.   It seems the whole town gathers in a sea of green and gold to cheer on our home town boys, The Harvesters.  Yep, the Harvesters.  Not the… Read more

  • Wide Load

    Easter Sunday when I posted this on my blog I was trying to be funny.  Today, there is nothing funny about it.  My butt hurts.  It’s the truth.  Ashy and I decided to go for a bike ride yesterday.  A pleasant country bike ride on dirt roads next to green pastures.  We headed south atop our cheap Walmart bikes, rode… Read more

  • A Marble Cake

    She’s 12 today. A beautiful joy.  Even with a wad of orange gum in her mouth. She asked if she could have a marble cake.  Sure, you can.  And then she looked at her grandmother, and in her best 12-year-old, you’ve-got-to-be-kiddin-me, pre-teen, on-the-verge-of-knowing-everything voice, she said “You know that’s a KIND of a cake, not a cake with real… Read more

  • In Your Name, we ask these things

    This post may not apply to you tonight.  But it’s heavy on my heart. Tomorrow many children all across my town, and my state, will be taking their state assessments.  And although I don’t have children of my own, I have gobs that have passed through my classroom doors in the past.  I also have one… Read more

  • Pruning

    A few days back when the sun was shining and all was right with the world, I decided to sit my plants outside.  I only have 4, but they’ve been lighting up my world for several years now.  I placed them in the sun, gave them a big drink of water from the hose, and… Read more

  • Ketchup is to Icecream as I am to skiing

    A small van loaded with church youth kids is on a ski trip to New Mexico as I write this.  Probably sitting in the front, the smallest and youngest of the bunch, sits my sweet niece Ashy (as my dad called her).  She’s never been skiing before.  I don’t know how she’s feeling right now, but I’ve chewed… Read more

  • Warning: Roller Skating May Lead to Gullible Bones

    This is a great song.  I first heard it at a teacher training about 4 years ago for incorporating music in the classroom, and I bought it as soon as I got home.  It’s by a girl named Melanie, whose voice is a little Janis Joplin”ish”.   That makes me love it even more.   Me and my niece Ash laced up… Read more