Like the rest of the world, I am gladly saying goodbye to 2020 and on this third day of 2021, am looking ahead hopefully to an end to the heartrending COVID deaths. About 350,000 people in the U.S. began 2020 without any knowledge that they would succumb before the end of the year to […]
I just realized as I sat down to write that it has been three months since I posted. I have had a number of blogs bouncing around in my head but have not put them to paper. Sometimes the weeks fly by with a mind of their own. I hang on during the week […]
My youngest daughter is going to turn 24 in about a week. I still remember coming home from the airport with her so many years ago. She was 2 ½ years old and we were bringing her to our home from China. I clearly remember thinking as we drove to our home, that this […]
I got a call this week from a nurse about my 98-year-old aunt. My aunt has been in a nursing home for almost five years after a fall that broke a bone in her upper leg and left her too weak to walk. The nursing home has taken excellent care of her over the […]
We celebrated Independence Day today. Some of our adult kids in the area came by for our traditional BBQ and a long-time family friends’ daughter came by as well…she is an honorary “one of our kids”. It just happened that today was also the Saturday in which we normally have our 6-year-old granddaughter for […]
I was with a 95 year old relative when she passed away yesterday afternoon; I will call her E. She had been living alone in an assisted living apartment and had fallen a couple of weeks ago. Due to the pandemic, meals had been brought to her apartment instead of eating in the dining […]
In the past few months, I have often heard, “If you love your elderly relative, don’t hug them”. I took that to heart with my husband’s grandmother, not even visiting her from late April until last week. I knew I would feel terrible if I inadvertently passed on COVID to her. At 104, she […]
A year ago, my sister and I looked at our calendars to see when our respective kids would have graduations as we wanted to be able to attend each kid’s special day. Who knew that everything would be virtual?
My second oldest son graduated from college last week. Although he was not planning on “walking […]
I thought that I posted this Easter weekend but it was stuck in my drafts. Whoops. I will post it now…
As I write this blog on Saturday afternoon of Easter weekend, my husband and I are looking forward to celebrating Easter through an on-line, live-streamed service, watching while sitting on our couch. […]
The woman in the picture staring down the path
is metaphorically me. There is a
path before me. I have been on it for
two years and I am rather comfortable there.
See how the path beckons the eye to see as far down it as possible? The scene is lovely…there is a green, grassy
field to the right, […]
