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Colorado’s April Fools Joke…Welcome to Spring!
I have been very excited these last couple of weeks, because Spring has been in the air! The trees are starting to bud and the weather has been increasingly warmer – it even got up to the 80’s a couple of weekends ago! So imagine with me, if you will, my dismay when a blizzard rolled through Colorado Springs today! It feels like some sick joke! Of course “blizzard” is a little too strong a description for the snow we got, but I’ll put it to you this way – if this snow had happened in Dallas/Ft Worth they would have shut the whole city down, so you could say…
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Trading Camps: My Move to Colorado Springs
Well folks, you read right…I’m now living in Colorado Springs, CO! Some of you who know me know I lived here for an eight-month stretch back in 2012-2013. We were beyond broke and couldn’t afford to drive anywhere in the beautiful place we were living, so my husband took a job in Carlsbad, NM to work in the oilfields. Obviously, we were not thrilled about leaving Colorado. Our plan back then was to move to Carlsbad, make a lot of money, and then move back to Colorado after about a year. Needless to say, that’s not quite how things panned out. We got to Carlsbad, and after our stretch of living in a tent,…
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How I survived being Homeless for a month
Those of you who know me know that when I moved to Carlsbad NM, I was homeless for the first month. When I say I was homeless, I don’t mean it in the sense that most people think of it. When I think of the term “homeless”, I picture a specific scene in downtown Ft. Worth. If you take the Lancaster exit from Northbound I-35 at night, you will often find a handful of homeless people sleeping under the bridges. To me, this is the true definition of homeless: no job, no car, no home, and no possessions except those that you can carry around with you. My homelessness was…
