My son got married last weekend! I am still glowing with warm memories of the event. They got married in the evening and it was one of those nights that I will go back to in my mind over and over.
The bride was lovely, the groom handsome (no bias there!). Actually, all wedding couples […]
My youngest baby bird wants desperately to be an adult, to stay out of the nest and be soaring on his own. There is just one slight problem.
He is doing the equivalent of a baby eagle perched on a rocky out-cropping besides the cliff-side nest and saying, “I’m on my own now! I’m never […]
I like life to move along on a straight path. I like blue skies, sunny days and above all, no potholes in my life please. I know that is unrealistic but still, I continue to delude myself that my road ahead, at least in the near future, will be free of bumps.
Sometimes there are […]
This week has been a sobering week. There have been 3 events on my mind this week in which families have been grieving over the loss of loved ones. In one instance, the event happened close to us geographically and there were also two other deaths where I knew the families personally.
The first event […]
I had a shallow moment this week and decided to write about that struggle in this blog. The picture to the left shows “shallow” in the lovely, peaceful, pristine sense, however my shallow moment was more self-absorbed that that. Have you ever gone through a situation where you know that there is a better […]
I have spent both time and money in the last 6 months, trying to get a better understanding of why I have gut issues and why I feel pressure around my esophagus. I had an endoscopy where the doctor looked down my esophagus and into the stomach. Nothing obvious, just some mild irritation of […]
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.
Our […]
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 […]
