The real, true phase of being done with creating and maintaining a nest is beginning. I’m on the road with my daughter. We’re either two days or one week behind schedule on starting the trip that moves my daughter to a state ever so far away. Road trip. A million emotions course through me. Will […]
Free Writing About Free Writing
GBE 2 – week 32 is a 15 minute free write. Check it out on the site, it gives the details. But this is what I do all the time, free writing I mean. I may have an idea to work from, but often I just start writing and something meaningful tends to come […]
Somewhere They Call It Boxing Day
Change on the home front is a constant but some time periods are more like rapids with swirls, eddies, and water rushing over submerged objects rather than the bucolic progress of a gently meandering stream. The Holiday rush has ended, sort of, but just like this day that has the name of medieval, or possibly […]
Christmas Crepes for Two
Hubby is over at the turtle tank picking out dried shrimp from the canister of turtle food and Randy the Turtle is gobbling them up as fast as they are dropped in the tank. Merry Christmas Randy! The doggies are chowing down on braided doggie chews made of raw hide. The cats have been brushed […]
Graduate Growing Pains
I didn’t succeed with Nablopomo this month, but I did succeed with doing an absolute ton of stuff. But it has not been enough for everyone around me. Expectations placed on mothers are sometimes huge and unrealistic ones. Sometimes mothers do not live up to expectations both realistic and unrealistic. Moms are humans. Daughters are […]
Rain Again, an observation and poem
I woke up this morning to more rain. It usually doesn’t bother me, but today it does. It is a cold sad rain. An unopened package from Ypsilanti was on the kitchen table. A friend, now dust and perhaps a memory at any given time – his words were in there. Parkinson’s was killing him […]