I was making the bed in the guest room yesterday in anticipation of my upcoming weekend house guests when my thoughts turned to the task at hand — yes, bed making and “hospital corners.” I was remembering when I was a little girl and my Mother teaching me how to tuck in the bottom first, [...]
When I was in the fourth grade my brother Kenny was born. Our Mother had been ill during this pregnancy, it was a difficult one and both of them almost didn’t make it. We lived in a very small two-bedroom house — my older brother John and my younger brother Brent shared a bedroom, my Mother and [...]
The graphic that accompanies this post was rendered at the site www.wordle.net using all of the words on this blog to date as a reference. It was fun seeing all of the different word clouds that were created from the “raw materials.”
My dearest Mother passed away two years ago today. Mom had been sick for a number of years but she was a survivor. She survived lung cancer. She survived bladder cancer. She survived heart disease. She survived COPD. She was, in fact, a walking miracle.
I would sometimes think, “When the time comes for her to [...]