Siblings are a wonderful thing to have when you’re growing up. You never have to worry about going somewhere new and not knowing anyone. There’s always someone to play with. And there’s always someone else to blame things on. In this picture, […]
When I was young, I dreamed of being thirty. Not eighteen, thirty. I was dreaming of maturity, wisdom, and stability instead of getting my license, graduating from high school, and being old enough to legally drink. There are a lot of advantages […]
We finally got enough okra to fry up for supper. In fact, we got two meals out of it. I got only one tomato so far, and I’m still dealing with the blossom end rot some, but much less since I fertilized. […]
In October of 1961, about three weeks before I turned five, my left arm crashed through a pane of glass on our front door. The glass did no damage until I tried to pull my arm back out. Our family doctor, I’ll […]
My garden is still growing… My middle grandchild loves the garden. He thinks it’s pretty cool. He was in heaven earlier today when I sent him out to the garden to get some basil for the sauce we were making. He’ll pick […]
For years my mother had a lift chair because it was very difficult for her to get up by herself. She loved her chair except for the fact that the controls were on her left side when she was sitting in it. […]
I thought I’d post an update on my garden in between my summer-hours posts. (Click here to see the newly planted version.) I decided to attempt another garden this year just because I need a bit of peace and serenity in my […]
I’m the kind of person who needs a certain amount of alone time. This is the time when I digest all my unresolved experiences, conversations, feelings, hopes, fears–both new and old–to search for some logic or wisdom or sense. It’s where I […]
It’s summer again and I planted a garden. It’s not a huge garden, but it’s what I can manage right now. I love going out in the quiet of the morning to water and weed. I’ll love it even more when we […]
Today, I don’t care. This picture was meant for a different blog post about how we use our gifts throughout our lifetime in different ways. I was going to tell you how writing isn’t my gift, that my point of view is […]
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