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 […]
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When I flew back with my four-month-old, adopted daughter, from her home country to my home, a prison scenario was not in my head as her future. I am furious; or maybe I am depressed mixed with grief. At […]
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My husband’s 108-year-old grandmother passed away on Monday, Jan 29th. Today is Friday, Feb 2nd, only four days later. Except for a few hours Monday afternoon when my husband and I went across town to pick up her personal effects from the care facility, I have continued showing up each day […]
Was it only in March that I wrote the “Jail to Job to Joy” blog? That was just ten weeks ago. After six years of what I thought was upright living by my oldest daughter, I became convinced that I needed to relax my guard and celebrate her. I thought I could finally look […]
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 […]
Please forgive the cheesy alliteration in the title. I have a good reason.
My oldest daughter, age 28, has a job as a district manager for a food franchise. She keeps an eye on individual stores, orders food, hires staff, fires staff when needed and keeps the locations running at peak efficiency. In fact, she […]
Well, life has moved on in these last couple of weeks. After finding out we owe a large amount of tax from the sale of our business, the shock has somewhat worn off. Retrospect is always so much clearer. My brother-in-law is a CPA and specializes in the sale of businesses. My other brother-in-law […]
In my outward appearance and behavior at work, I believe I look even tempered, though my coworkers would likely say that I am somewhat quiet. They would be correct; I come to focus on my work and every minute spent talking is a minute wasted that could have been getting something done. I talk […]
As I write this blog, my younger daughter, now 26, has withheld all contact from me for 13 months. It was December, a little over a year ago, that we were last in contact; usually by text, but it was still contact. I thought we were doing well.
That Fall a year ago, we texted […]
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