When I read Gone With the Wind, I totally pictured my mom as one of those gorgeous, genteel, southern belles… skilled in every social grace. Once the kids in my class asked me if she was an actress because she wore sunglasses to a parent-teacher conference… and in today’s parlance, she looked smokin’. She greeted me after …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Together
For the last few weeks she's made lists... things she wants to give away... her things... just in case. A week ago I found him fully dressed, sound asleep in the livingroom. He'd been there since 1 a.m., fearful she needed to go back to the hospital ... "I need to be ready" he said. But when the hospital …
Do all roads lead home?
I've been gone a few days. I've been "home" for a couple. Writing has eluded me. My mind is overloaded and my heart is sad. Family and love call me south. Family and obligation call me north. It looks like Interstate 5 and my trusty car will get a work out this summer. And that's ok... ... …
Five Minute Friday: Good-Bye
...linking today with Gypsy Mama, writing for five minutes, the word: good-bye I've said good-bye in airports, on tarmacs, on the street in front of my house, in hospital rooms, over the telephone, in an email. Said good-bye to my parents, wondering when I would see them again... Held my grandfather's hand in his hospital room... …
Sharing Love Honestly
The last few days have been a little prickly. While I care for another's mom... ...my own was 600 miles and a snowy mountain range away in a hospital bed. And Dad... well, he just doesn't do so well without Mom these days. He called each evening sounding lost. My sister found him one night eating …
The best kind of meal….
Our old house languishes two hours north of us... the rooms almost empty, the workshop a mess... waiting for coats of paint and new floors and its new occupants to enter in. So Doug and I trek there and begin our weekly list of chores. Then a son and daughter-in-law arrive, then two more, then …
On Boots ‘n’ Pooh ‘n’ Writing
I've had a problem getting words on paper lately. It's been a problem for a while actually... started last October when my life changed so dramatically. My bossy inner critic keeps telling me I have nothing to say - to just keep quiet. The word police have arrested me.... "you can't say that". So in the effort to push …
State Capitals… and Why I Need to Remember Stuff
I never liked to memorize anything. Multiplication tables in 4th grade are my only claim to fame in that department. And that was only because we got to move up the line and get out the door faster for lunch. I can be bribed with food. But I do admire people who effortlessly rattle off a famous …
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Epiphany…. I almost missed it
It takes me awhile to process things. I "mull", I debate inwardly over and over again, which is why I am just now coming to terms with January 1st. January 1st was our family Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years all rolled into one. A lot of expectation for one little day. It was the day we had most of our kids and …
Pie and Persistance
The wedding was perfect. My extraordinary mother was the creative genius behind it all. The cake - five tiers of hand-crafted, spun sugar orchids - was made and given as a gift. Family and friends gathered for the reception, catered by my favorite church ladies. And there is nothing better than church lady food. And none of the …
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