Moving one hoof at a time

I've got a confession.  It's a dark, dirty secret and it has started to take over my life.    No, I do not have another horse.  Besides...it's no secret those 4-legged-hay-eating-hair-shedding-balls-of-joy have taken over my life.  Wait...new essential oils stuff?  Nope.  Not oils related either. I carry this damn thing everywhere and am pretty obsessive about it.  In fact, I carry TWO with me. Maybe a new cell phone?  After all, I am kind of a tech junkie.....  Almost too much of a tech junkie at times.  In fact, I have given serious thought to this article on NPR  and wonder, how many times have I upset my children because I needed to read one more article or look up "one more thing."  I work hard to take time to "unplug" but I wonder if my family and I might need to "unplug" a little more.  Alas, no new phone.  I might be a tech junkie, but I am a CHEAP tech junkie; which means I will keep my phone until...

I'm looking for a friend of mine and I'm hoping all of you can help me.  It's been a long time since we've seen each other and we're hardly the same person then we were before. I'm looking for my friend,Miss Dee-Lovely, who I knew way back in our teenage years....long before Miss Dee came out to play (at least publicly). We attended art camp together (Arts World, for those who are sticklers for detail), sang together, and  took goofy pictures of each other as teenagers.. long before selfies were a "thing."  We kept in contact for many years and then poof she was gone...or so I thought.  It turned out Miss Dee was REALLY busy and doing some advocacy work (yes, I've been doing some internet sleuthing).  However, it wasn't until recently that I started thinking about her again.  First, it was about a year ago when my husband and I started unpacking after our move to a new home. I open several boxes of photos and  came across photos from my cam...