South by Southwest

A blog about the Sunshine Family's life and times transitioning from Big City life to Small Town Texas life with a husband, two young adults an emotionally needy dog and two crazy kittens.

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Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Leon Was Here

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Got home from yoga to find the remnants of the tissue box on the floor. Only one Overlord attacks tissue boxes in our house. When I started...

Monday, October 6, 2025

A Snippet Into the Sunshine Household

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Note: I'm not whining, just being present to how life is here on Arizona Avenue. For the most part, we are all in good spirits. In a sma...

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

And So It Begins

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Roosevelt decided I didn't need to edit. I needed to hold him for hours on end. At least this way he wasn't zooming out the door, ...

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The Fugitive

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Roosevelt staring at a bird--which is what he does when he isn't sleeping. Roosevelt, our adventurous Overlord, likes to to stare at t...

Monday, September 29, 2025

Branson with Bliz

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Bliz and I met in Branson, MO a couple weekend's past, which is sort of half-way between us (Bliz lives four hours away, I'm about s...

Thursday, September 25, 2025

The Unknown

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Marty is searching for a job. I'm trying not to be emotionally invested. It would be significantly easier if he didn't bounce in eve...

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

I'm Still Rewriting Chapter Two

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Marty has been unemployed for 10 days. Which means he's been home for the past 10 days. He's been home All. Day. In that time he...

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Fiona D.: Fiona Dragon is a pseudonym from when I first started home schooling. Fiona was a character I made up to help teach my reluctant reader. Several years ago my adorable husband, Marty Sunshine, and I thought it would be cool to own rental properties. Then we decided it was so easy, why not try it 1,700 miles from our home? It wasn't easy. It made me cranky. Now 15 years later, a lot wiser and a lot broker, we are rebuilding our lives.I write because I like it and it is cheaper than therapy. I watch baseball for the same reasons.

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