When I saw the grounds where Anna & Tim planned to marry I thought, “this is beautiful”. A white gazebo planted on a grassy hillside overlooking a pond and out…
I am Sister Of the Bride. The S.O.B. My mind, my memory, is like a film camera. I take pictures, then go sit somewhere quiet and dark, and develop the…
Heat of summer day, settled into evening warmth. Humidity bathing flesh. Saturates every breath; be still until it permeates. Open eyes. Fireflies. Photo From: http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/lens/article/?id=132
A year ago, if someone had asked me, theoretically, how I would get through a tough time, I would have tried to come up with an extrapolation on inner strength…
The back story: http://oxyr.blogspot.com/2009/03/march-14-2007.html Within that context, you understand my surprise and thrill when she called and stated an interest in taking another foray with me. GAME ON! Just the…
This morning I was summoned from my bed for a “State of Fidgit” communique with the parents. Through a Hydrocodone Haze (medicating through the days following my right foot’s interference…
“The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.” ~Marge Kennedy I learned to be who I am, from…
While at my sister’s college graduation in Chicago I stole an evening to catch up with friends from the glacier summers in Alaska. I stand in awe of the things…
As kids, our parents are always telling us not to scratch itches. Like Chicken Pox or mosquito bites. But here’s the thing, I don’t have the best self control in…
