A new day is dawning after our Christmas celebrations. Two of our three house guests are being transported to Toledo to catch a bus and our home is mine alone for half a day. A perfect time for reflection and meditation, and maybe a couple loads of laundry. I am a Christian and also a person who doesn’t feel a […]
Last week I was looking at videos of Christmas’s past. My grandsons’ mother died this past year and there were home videos I wanted to copy for them so my beloved grandsons could sort out their memories of their lives with her. She suffered from mental illness so life could be crazy sometimes. My goal was to give them something […]
It is easy to sit down on Thanksgiving Day and make a list of what I am thankful for – but I felt almost repulsed by that exercise this year. Besides, after 50 years of adulthood lists they begin to look very similar – except for the occasion year when all I could be thankful for was that the prior […]
She bent over to pick up some dirty clothes on the floor and he laid his hand on her rear. It was a gentle touch and he let his hand linger into a caress, before he turned and walked away. They had been married a long time, and his touch triggered the confusion again. Was it an invitation, letting her […]
A few years ago, friend Barb said that old age is a process of “patch, patch, patch.” We weren’t that old when she said this but I laughed because I was old enough to begin feeling it. Now I really get it. In my younger years I went to the doctor with the expectation that whatever was wrong would be […]
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