Sara Hickman

We put Grady to sleep yesterday. I would like to thank Dr. Buck for his kindness during a sincerely traumatic time for me and my family.

President Bush… A good Christian walks the walk. I’m a person who has made many mistakes, but you know what? I’m going to call you to the mat. What you […]

Seven-year-old Dillan Chancey is exhausted from the past four days. He and his mother and father rode out the hurricane in Biloxi, Mississippi, where they lost everything they had. (Carolyn […]

No, not the smelly, stealin’, sink-yer-ship mean kinda pirate, just the everyday nice heavy metal kind who mix Monty Python with Metallica. THOSE kind of pirates. More later.

I have to go to the grocery store right now, but I have thoughts out the wazoo to share with you. Hopefully, to pique your interest, I will leave these […]

Grady is just not eating. I’m not sure what to do. She has been resting comfortably, and we have all been loving on her. I’ve been applying the steriod powder […]

Gene arrived on Wednesday into our fair city of 104 degrees. He’s now living in San Jose, so he started putting sunblock on two weeks back to battle the onslaught […]

Mark and I worked hard today; the mixes are coming together and I couldn’t be more grateful to such a talented man. We’ll be back at it at 9:30 tomorrow […]

More working on the record this morning. Ok, whoever is reading this blog, I have a huge favor to ask. If it is still Tuesday, August 23 and it is […]

Cat-in-the-Hat had a birthday party today. He turned 4 1/2 years old. iolana came home from school with him hanging out of her pink backpack and announced today was the […]

Fresh red grapes, Luna bar (S’mores), lemonade, celery sticks with peanut butter, napkin (folded nicely), cheddar goldfish, and water for recess… ….and a note that says how proud we are, […]

The Crossings is a spa/retreat, tucked up in the hill country of Austin…roadrunners bounding across paths; striped, two inch lizards sunbathing on flat, white chalk-like rocks; flowers blooming the rainbow’s […]

[Photo courtesy of Scott Walker]

tomorrow, io goes in to surgery to have her tonsils and adnoids removed. please keep her in your thoughts and prayers for those who are up at 5:45 am…and for […]

my husband says to me as he is hugging me good bye this morning, “i hope you have a show tonight as good as lil’s last night!” and if i […]

If i”m redundant, please forgive me. I’m trying to share what all goes on to make the new record, so I might repeat myself in my fatigue (and spell some […]

this week in the studio, the first two days, today being the second of the two, i have been working on vocals. fixing vocals, singing vocals, re-singing vocals, putting on […]

3:08 in the morning…if i can’t sleep, i might as well be creating something, si? working hard on driving from here to there…a four hour drive becomes seven with three […]

we started the morning in the barton hills parade, riding on the back of a flatbed with a p.a. system, singing patriotic songs: me, lance, lily, io, my nephew and […]

death walked all over the world this week, i know. but it came in a series of three for us…first, the passing of my grandmother last friday…then the passing of […]

THANK YOU i noticed you the other day. you were sauntering across the morning street, all gray and rumpled, unaware of cars or danger. i pulled up in front of […]

My mom sent this announcement out this morning, and for those of you wanting to know more about my dear Meema, here is how my mother shared her reflections. Love, […]

My grandmother, Mamie Mandot, has passed on to be with her husband, Marc, and her parents and siblings. She died today of pneumonia in Livingston, Texas. She was just two […]