Three things stood out in my thoughts this week: Amazement that my husband and I celebrated our 48th wedding anniversary - A memory from our summer road trip in which I considered being dropped off at the nearest airport because I didn't want to ride with him anymore - And a sentence I read in …
We hadn't planned on staying the night in Salt Lake City. Of course, we also hadn't planned on loosing time to an oil leak in the truck and a flat tire on the trailer. We were two days behind on our journey and Doug wanted to make that up. But we needed fuel. And we …
Last weekend we made the familiar 10 hour drive south. Since my husband and I wouldn't see my uncle until the next day and there were no motel rooms available anyway, we drove the extra hour into San Francisco. That choice gave us dinner at a favorite restaurant, and an unseasonably affordable, beautiful hotel room …
Two team members are dead. The third rests against a tree, mortally wounded. His last words are to tell his wife how much he loves her, "and that I died with my brothers...with a full heart" From the movie Lone Survivor. The scene and those words are stuck in my head. What does it mean to die with …
If you post on Facebook regularly, you are familiar with your "memories" from a year or two or five popping into your daily newsfeed. This week, this photo memory caught my attention. It was exactly one year ago that one of my new daughters-in-law very bravely, on her own, bought a cute little house. She searched, …
Today was a good day. Every day is a good day. I choose it to be. The alternative is unacceptable. Every day is a good day even when there's too much work, my knee is stiff, and I must cook dinner for the 80 millionth time (slight exaggeration). Even the day that arrives with unseen pressure lightens when I remember …
I could prattle on about my trip to the craft shop early this week, where a bin of hula hoops and brightly colored balls caught my eye. $3.99 the sign said. Since I'm updating the grandkids' toy box I grabbed a couple of balls, the items I went to the store for and checked out. …
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Black Beauty left this week. Somehow, Someway, she made impact with a stationary object. I know NOTHING about that. I do not drive her. Really. The person who does might have more to add, but that's all I'm sayin'. In the meantime we've acquired, supposedly on a "temp basis", an old farm truck that had been put …
I perched on the edge of the pool in all my 13 year-old gawkiness... poised to dive head first. My wet hair and wet suit had long since dried. I was a wreck. I wanted to jump. She said I had to jump. But I just couldn’t jump. Irrational fear flooded my mind. Arms and …
1 - The days of some months are like trying to catch a greased pig at the county fair... they slip thru your fingers and refuse to be contained in a single word... as in it's been a long time since I've written here. 2 - On the face of the earth there are only …
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