Blessed Are The Children

June 28, 2011

We just spent this past weekend helping my brother and his wife celebrate the very brief life and mourn the passing of their daughter, Emmy Robin, who was born right into Heaven.  Then, I came home to find an old schoolfriend of mine has lost her nine year-old son in an accidental drowning.   And [...]

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Mathetization Skills Supreme

June 1, 2011

Friends, I’ve lost my mind and gone back to school.  After 17 years of being Mom, it’s once again College Life for me.  Tonight I went to only my second math class –  and I came home scared.  I had been feeling really good because last week, even though I left class SCARED, once I [...]

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Beauty and Her Beast

March 6, 2011

Woman, let me tell you something.  You are beautiful.  You are more lovely than you allow yourself to believe. You who have lived long enough to earn the love of people outside your immediate families, you who have lived well enough to reach out and love others the same way, you who care for and [...]

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Fixing Audible Thievery an Amazon(ian) Task

March 4, 2011

So here is what happened. I was paying my bills and noticed a charge from Audible for $14.95.  Huh.  I hadn’t ordered anything from a company called Audible.  Oh, wait.  About a month ago, I was cruising around Facebook and saw an ad on the sidebar for a free audio book.  I clicked on the [...]

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Ms. Awesome Heroine

March 1, 2011

When I was in 9th grade, my school’s librarian, Mrs. Wilder, pointed me toward some books she thought I would like.  One was Gone With the Wind and a lifetime love affair with romance was born.  The other was Years by LaVyrle Spencer, a sweeping historical romance between a brand new teacher and her pupil’s [...]

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Suppose He Was Leaving Me

February 9, 2011

Not that there’s even a foggy, foggy possibility.  But suppose my darling man was tempted by another.  No doubt she would be his singer/songwriter counterpoint.  A gal whose pipes would blow me off stage.  Take for example, Nicole Atkins, a singer he introduced me to, and to whom neither of us could stop listening.  Here [...]

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HOPE to be Back Very Soon

January 12, 2011

H is for the Help that medication might provide a breath of calm, a sense of self, accomplishments, and pride. O is for the knowledge that my Own mind is unclear. With dignity, I learn and change, attempting to draw near to Plans I make and Plans I keep, to-do lists WILL be done; and [...]

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We Gather Together

November 16, 2010

In a family of three people who aren’t traveling over the river and through the woods, where one of us is a teenager who only grimly exists inside his family unit, and one of us is a man who works on the road twelve days out of every fourteen, and the other of us is [...]

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One Boy, Two Dogs, No Waiting

November 9, 2010

I took the boy and the two dogs for a trip to see my mom and dad last week.  I dithered about leaving here because Marlo was acting like she needed to see the vet and I couldn’t get her IN to see the vet until late in the day.  I finally talked myself into [...]

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Hits and Misses and Bloodlust

October 27, 2010

Just to catch you up, the boy and I have been doing some serious movie-watching.  Horror films abound.  This year, though, there’s been The Good, The Bad, and The Truly Awful.  In no particular order (though my favorite is at the end) I give you a rundown of this year’s selections and our opinions on [...]

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