There, but for the Grace of God, go I… …I like this phrase. It rolls off the tongue and has a poetic rhythm to it that sounds nice to the ear. I found myself using it the other day in the grocery store. And while I use it to note …
Maya Angelou passed. Often when someone who has done so much and is in their mid 80s dies, I think “well done” and “a life well lived.” She considered her own end and said, “I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord …
So something stunning happened this week. I shared a memory with my husband that he is a part of. He IS the memory really. Something he said. I told him where we were standing in which house and the month and year and, while I didn’t tell him this part, …
Mother’s Day is coming up and it is such a mixed bag for me. I do not communicate with my mother. So this day with all its reverence for the holy mommy that gave us life and nurtured us and made us what we are and our shiny hero can …
I find myself judging people less harshly lately. Well, that’s not exactly true. I find myself judging people just as harshly, but with the qualifier that I am the same kind of idiot I think they are. And if I am not an idiot in the exact moment they are, …
I used to hear Normal is a setting on the dryer. But I like this even better because DH is from Illinois and I use that fact to explain a lot of things about him. The other day, Little Sir pointed out that Daddy was wearing socks and Mommy and …