For someone as big a tech-head as me, I am absolutely stunned sometimes by new developments in technology. A week ago, I sat for twelve hours working on my new website with my uber talented son-in-law. At the end of that marathon, he asked me if I write my posts on Word first then transfer them. I shook my head. He said, with a questioning look on his face…”You write them directly on Facebook? On your laptop?” I shook my head again…and held up my cellphone. My iPhone 6 Plus, to be exact. His jaw dropped. “You write 1,000 word essays…on a cellphone?!?!” I laughed. In my defense, after writing an essay every single day for the last four years, I’ve gotten really fast with that right index finger and I hunt and peck my way through a 1×2 inch touchscreen “keyboard”. Still…he shook his head and said…”Stay right here. This is going to blow your mind!” Then he went downstairs.

A few minutes later, this brilliant man that my older daughter had the good sense to marry, came back upstairs and handed me something straight from computer heaven! A tiny, folding, portable, bluetooth keyboard that wasn’t much bigger than the cellphone itself. I was flabbergasted! Why have I not been made privy to such a wondrous invention??? After turning it over and over in my hands, folding and unfolding, I asked…”Where do I get such a miraculous gadget???” He smiled and said that word that thrills all technogeeks…”Amazon!” I immediately pulled said site up on said phone and purchased said item with PayPal. Didn’t even have to get my wallet out! Oh, how I love technology!!!

So, now…I’ll be typing my posts on this little gizmo in a quarter of the time, leaving me an extra forty-five minutes every day to do something else. That’s an extra 1.629464285714286 days!!! Wow!

Today is Marshmallow Ranch’s 4th Birthday. Four years ago, I started this page as a way to promote jewelry I was making from antique silverware and maps in my art studio I had cleverly named…Marshmallow Ranch. At the time, it was nothing more than a spare room upstairs in my house in the Rocky Mountains. Three months later, Mr. Virgo died and this project grew out of my desperation to have someone to talk to about this horrible grief journey I was on. I knew I couldn’t be the only one on this path so I reached out. There were less than 400 “Ranchers” at that time. And now…look at us! I am very proud of this wonderfully supportive group of fellow travelers and look forward to many more years of sharing as we navigate this thing called grief…one campfire at a time. ❤️

“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”
‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭2:10‬ ‭NIV