Welcome to Life on a Tightrope. 

I’m Dre.

I read, I think, I write, I drink wine.  

Chaos brings out the quirks in my personality. 

You may be wondering, “Do you drink your wine from a paper bag in that alley you’re standing in up there, half naked?” 

The answer, my friend, is: No, but maybe now is a good time to start.

If you’ve been a reader of mine in the past, you may wonder why I moved from The Sweet Life.  It’s simple, really.  For three years, I tried to write what I thought people would want to read at a place where life is supposed to be vanilla bean sweet, but that’s not who I am, nor is it who I want to be.

In reality, my life is a tightrope – sometimes narrow, sometimes wide, always hanging over a deep chasm promising to swallow me whole if I fall.  Here, at Life on a Tightrope, I talk about finding my balance.

I work from home on a small ranch in Northern California with  my daughters, Alison (7) and Blythe (3).  Sometimes the isolation is nice – other times, not so much.

Alison is gifted, and Blythe has special needs – she’s severely allergic to corn, which has caused her to have a compromised immune system, and she also battles corn-induced autism, sensory processing disorder (SPD), and a mild form of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).  I am currently separated from my husband and sometimes I write about that, here, too.  It’s cheaper than therapy.

According to the wall in my office, I have a BA in Child Development, an AS in Business Administration, an AA in Liberal Arts, and a certificate to teach Childbirth Education from the International Childbirth Education Association (ICEA).  It all sounds very fancy, but at the end of the day I’m really just an overly-qualified pooper-scooper.

Thanks for visiting, and let me know if you’d like a swig from my paper bag at:  meatfordinner (at) gmail (dot) com

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