We just came back from a wonderful time of celebrating our granddaughter’s 4th birthday. We met her Daddy and the other grandparents at the theater, saw the movie “Coco” and then went to lunch. She is down for a nap at our house right now so thought I would write about her special day.
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Our granddaughter spends the night at our house every couple of weeks. We have a loveseat cushion that is just the right size for an almost 4-year-old and we made it into a little bed on the floor of the room next to ours. Because there is a double bed in the room as […]
I really enjoyed the 24 hours I had when I thought I had made a tiny connection with my daughter. Then…as the title implies, the door slammed shut in my face and I am outside again, looking at the locked door and wondering what to do next.
When I sent The Little Vine story to […]
My week was a mix of the cute, the busy and the emotionally draining.
We were going to ignore Halloween and just work late, however some neighbors invited us over for a “on their driveway” potluck along with tables set up with bowls of candy for the trick or treaters. We went to that and […]
Karel Dujardin painted “Boy Blowing Soap Bubbles” in 1663. The painting is an allegory on the brevity of life. The soap bubbles represent the transitory nature of life and all that we cherish; beautiful for the moment but gone all too soon.
I have spent this past week thinking about my younger daughter. A year […]
This weekend I am “in a good place” emotionally. This last month has been cathartic in terms of writing the story to my daughter and sending it off a week ago. Enough time has gone by that if she checks her mailbox, I would expect she has received it. I think that curiosity might […]
I sent The Little Vine story to my daughter a couple of days ago. I had it printed onto a pale blue paper then had a dark blue plastic backing with clear cover bound onto the story. I wanted the effect to be something that says, “Keep me”. My hope is that she reads […]
I finished this allegory for my daughter, as shown below. The first part of the story is in the last blog post.
I plan to print the story and send it to her apartment. I hope she checks her mail. I hope that she will read the dedication to her, understand in reading this story that […]
This story is dedicated to my younger daughter. She is strong, beautiful, and is wildly living life as a polar opposite to how we raised her. With every look, every word, every text, she tries to convey disdain, disrespect, and dislike for her parents, especially me…her mom. And yet…I love her. I will always love […]
I realized recently that of all the blogs I have written over the past few years, none of them have primarily been about my second oldest son. I think that it is because I tend to focus my writing on either painful situations that I am trying to emotionally work through or on an […]
