Tornado
Babs Villa
by Babs Villa
2y ago
Tornado Southern storms always carry the possibility of tornadoes. Most southerners don’t give it a second thought. Unless, they have experienced the devastation a tornado can bring they are just considered an inconvenience. Unfortunately, my hometown had experienced loss in a major way one year when it hit the high school and killed eight children.  Many houses were crushed as well as an older woman that passed away. That fear stays with you for years to come. It’s different if your spouse and children are under the same roof with you but as they get older, they may be in different locat ..read more
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Tornado
Babs Villa
by Babs Villa
2y ago
Southern storms always carry the possibility of tornadoes. Most southerners don’t give it a second thought. Unless, they have experienced the devastation a tornado can bring they are just considered an inconvenience. Unfortunately, my hometown had experienced loss in a major way one year when it hit the high school and killed eight children.  Many houses were crushed as well as an older woman that passed away. That fear stays with you for years to come. It’s different if your spouse and children are under the same roof with you but as they get older, they may be in different locations. My ..read more
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Riding Mower
Babs Villa
by Babs Villa
2y ago
The grass stood up to my hip. Sweat ran down my back. Outside temperature was ninety-five with humidity at one hundred percent. I could not force myself to push the mower around my little acre lot again. Learning how to use the riding mower was the only way. I walked out to the garage feeling like I would melt with every step. This made attempt number sixteen. Every time I tried, I sat on top of the mower with sweat coming out of every pore of my body until tears ran down my face and the words, “I need him” coming out of my mouth. It ended with my defeat and going back in the house knowing eve ..read more
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Keep It Simple
Babs Villa
by Babs Villa
2y ago
In making a blog, I spent countless hours trying to learn everything I could find. There is so much online about how to start a blog. I got lost in the sea of information. Overwhelmed and frustrated became a way of life. I knew I was making it harder than it had to be, but I couldn’t stop. I felt I needed to know everything before I started. Yes, I was making it harder than it was. For Pete’s sake elementary children make blogs everyday. I have a bachelors degree. Twenty years ago, I taught myself HTML code and made web pages….FOR FUN! I know I’m capable of learning. But I put so much pressure ..read more
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Eating
Babs Villa
by Babs Villa
2y ago
Something you have to do every day. In the beginning it may be tough. Eating alone is hard. Figuring out how to make meals for one person is also hard. Both can be overcome. Maybe your mate did all the cooking. That’s ok. Learning to cook for one is doable. If you can read, you can cook. You might find you like it. I used to cook for six people. If the kids friends were over, which they normally were, I cooked for a whole lot more. It was hard for me to cut the recipes down to one person. I found I can make it as I normal would and baggy the rest into several meals and freeze it. Most people d ..read more
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Midnight Musings
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by Babs Villa
2y ago
Why do the moon and stars fascinate me? I suppose it’s because when I look up and see how vast the world really is my problems don’t seem so big. Someone always has it worse. Someone, maybe even one house over, has deeper non-fixable issues. Yes, I may be dealing with this or that but it’s not this and that. When I was pregnant with my second child, my (now ex) husband went to Kuwait and became a hostage. I didn’t have contact with him for months and had no clue if he was alive or not. This was tragic. I had a two year old and one on the way. I wasn’t working and didn’t know how I would suppor ..read more
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Cry
Babs Villa
by Babs Villa
2y ago
It’s okay to cry. Holding in all the downs of life is like trying to hold water in your hand. There is no point in pretending to be up and alright. It is going to come out eventually. If you don’t let the tears flow when something happens, you will look like a crazy person crying over nothing later on. I’m not sure why some of us believe showing our pain is bad. We feel silly crying when we are hurt. But we don’t feel silly about bleeding when we get cut. Both are our bodies reaction to pain. We can no more hold in our blood than we can keep our tears in forever. Holding in tears all the time ..read more
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Dating
Babs Villa
by Babs Villa
2y ago
At some point after becoming single you may find that you have a need to no longer be single. I would like to show you a comparison. 1984 Fall leaves crunching under your feet. The distant smell of rain in the air. A cold chill down your spine. The sound of music and announcements over loudspeakers about rides and games. Bundled up in your warmest jacket and tightest jeans. Your friends laughing and carrying on about nothing that matters. Then you look across the fairgrounds and you see him. The note from Friday still in your jacket pocket. You can picture it without looking. “I’ll be at the F ..read more
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Control
Babs Villa
by Babs Villa
2y ago
Today we are going to talk about victory. A win can be large or small. Some will be non-important to some while it is everything to another. The victory today is large no matter where you are in the world of material things. Yes, it may be a material thing, but it is one of the most important from the time you can grasp items in your hand. A small child understands the importance of control. The child will try to gain control from early on. Most have it and rule the house. But the control I’m talking about comes when you are an adult.  And when you have this control, you can rule the worl ..read more
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Tornado
Babs Villa
by Babs Villa
5y ago
Tornado Southern storms always carry the possibility of tornadoes. Most southerners don’t give it a second thought. Unless, they have experienced the devastation a tornado can bring they are just considered an inconvenience. Unfortunately, my hometown had experienced loss in a major way one year when it hit the high school and killed eight children.  Many houses were crushed as well as an older woman that passed away. That fear stays with you for years to come. It’s different if your spouse and children are under the same roof with you but as they get older, they may be in different ..read more
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