Title Image: Mother Tucking Children into Bed by Norman Rockwell licensed under public domain PDM 1.0 Deed
Norman Rockwell Paintings
I love Norman Rockwell paintings. I fully realize that they are the quintessential “Americana” portraits of life in the early to mid-twentieth century and as such are an idealized version of family life. Still, there is […]
Title image: Flickr “Fact Check” is licensed under CC BY 2.0
My daughter is a Sociopath. I have been thinking about that word a lot lately, as if “sociopath” is a math problem that if I just concentrate long enough on, I can solve.
What does “sociopath” even mean? What does the label mean in terms […]
Image Attribution: Public Domain “Cross” is licensed under CCO
After posting my dark blog last week, I (weirdly) felt a bit lighter in spirit, as if the heaviness of my soul was lifted after sending those words out into cyberspace. Along with slightly more positive thinking this past week, I have had a growing realization […]
Image Title Attribution: Wikimedia Commons “Don’t Worry” by Vincerama is licensed under CC BY 3.0 DEED
I don’t know how to be happy as a sustained state of being. I can be happy for moments and I have been trying to find joy in little things, but I struggle to be overall content with where […]
Title illustration: Sunshine by Joy and Gladness by DeviantArt by Yesterdays-Paper – CC BY 3.0 DEED
In a little over a month, my daughter will be sentenced to prison. It will be for years, not months. I am unable to fathom what this will be like. She will miss so much of what life should […]
I have a soft spot in my heart for English cottages with country gardens. No matter that I live in a different country. In my mind’s eye, I see myself as retired in the “cutest cottage ever”, pottering around in a verdant garden filled with a riotous display of colorful flowering plants, somehow growing […]
All across the country this weekend, adorable toddlers dressed (usually by their mothers) in pastel shades of purples, blues and pinks are running around grassy areas holding Easter baskets, gleefully finding plastic eggs filled with jellybeans and brightly colored, foil wrapped chocolates.
I remember those days with my own kids, like it was yesterday. I […]
A friend of mine used the term “forbearance” recently in reference to getting through this pandemic. I have been thinking about that word ever since.
I remember back in March when everything first shut down and parents started to work from home. After a few weeks, my husband and I would walk around the block […]
We lost two elderly relatives this past summer. They were both in the last half of their nineties so maybe we would have lost them anyway, however I believe they died from lack of connection during this COVID environment. Neither of them had COVID, however I believe they were still indirect casualties of COVID.
My […]
I have written a lot of blogs over the last six years and I think this is the first time I have written one specifically about my husband. I am going to write about him today because I have been thinking this week about the little things he does that mean a lot to […]
