Posted November 3, 2025
“Grief By A Thousand Cuts” I know that technically the phrase is “death by a thousand cuts,” but over and over, as I have navigated learning to live in a world without my mother, this is the phrase I keep hearing in my head. My mother passed away on July… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Prairie Life
Posted August 27, 2022
Don’t look away from the pain. Step into it and find the good. I’ve been thinking about how to write this post for months. Ever since I learned about the death of our beloved Mary Poppins. And I’ve deleted hundreds of words and restarted this about five times just this… Read More »
Categories: Health and Wellness, Life As It Happens, This and That
Posted July 23, 2022
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me I once was lost, but now am found Was blind, but now I see. It’s a song that brings me to tears every single time I hear it. Whether in a commercial, a short video on Instagram, or… Read More »
Categories: Health and Wellness, Life As It Happens, Prairie Life
Posted March 27, 2017
It’s been a few week’s of up and down around here. The news that a family friend, one of the Cowboy’s dearest friends, a hero of my children, and a legend in the horse world, unexpectedly passed away last week broke our hearts yet again. Tears are still falling, and prayers… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Prairie Life
Posted March 16, 2017
We all expected him to die while driving. Eyes bleary, he drove with a passenger seat full of empty beer cans. But that was television, and he didn’t die — didn’t even crash. Just days before, though, a 22-year-old son, brother, grandson, boyfriend — and great friend of so many… Read More »
Categories: This and That, Wyo Sal
Posted March 10, 2017
An hour or so ago, I sat in my hotel in Las Vegas, mentally preparing today’s post. It was going to be the promised recap of our “elk hunting” trip to LA last week. We have so many fun stories that I was trying to process what ones I should… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens
Posted October 25, 2016
This last week has been one that has knocked me to my knees. A good friend, someone who I don’t see as often as I like but enough to keep our relationship real…she lost her mother. Her mother was ill, yet her death was sudden and unexpected. When I read… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Prairie Life
Posted September 22, 2016
So when discussing being a guest blogger here, the suggestion was that I could write about anything I wanted, without fear of corporate correctness or editing. So far, I’ve written about travel, football and football as it relates to church, which I didn’t even know was a topic. My encouragers… Read More »
Categories: This and That, Wyo Sal
Posted December 21, 2015
I struggled quite a bit about whether or not I should do this post. I am not afraid to share my stories with others, that’s why I started prairiewifeinheels.com. It was more about if this story really fit the mission of our site. After all, it says in our blog… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Prairie Life
Posted November 2, 2015
Ever since The Cowboy moved me out onto the Wyoming Prairie I’ve had a lot of new experiences. Some have been fun like milking a cow for the first time, others got old pretty quick, and some are just heart breaking. Every time I’ve conquered a new skill or am… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Parenting, Prairie Life
