The Pleasure of Recognition
Coming From A Fellow Blogger, It Means a Lot Enormous and heartfelt thanks to Hannah at Books and Bakes ! She was kind enough to nominate me for the Blogger Recognition Award, and I will herewith pass along her quote…
Coming From A Fellow Blogger, It Means a Lot Enormous and heartfelt thanks to Hannah at Books and Bakes ! She was kind enough to nominate me for the Blogger Recognition Award, and I will herewith pass along her quote…
I Still Love You. But It’s Time To Grow Up Now. Like all newborns, America, when you struggled into existence you were amazing and unique and full of promise. You were also a bloody mess. It took a lot to…
When An Adult Sibling DiesJ My husband and I sit before a crackling fire in the lobby of the old Mendocino Hotel. Outside, mist blurs the headlands as it drifts into shore and then draws out again, as though the ocean…
It’s not the vacation. I’m having a wonderful time, visiting family while on a leisurely road trip through the Northwest. I get to see my beloved grandnieces and grandnephews, children who are thriving and happy and delightful and safe. But…
I’m on the phone with my older son when I get a call from my younger son’s fiancé. I mention this to my older son. “Weird,” he says, “she just tried to call me too.” Abruptly the present, calm water…