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 […]
Not the Best of Days
Stressing out big time, too much to do over the next three days. The graduation party is Friday. I’m hopelessly behind. Zilla has her finals this week. One today, one tomorrow and one Weds. I guess I will just do what I can and say heck to the rest. I wish I really could be […]
Empty Nesters Done Nesting
Are you what is now referred to as an empty nester? I prefer to say I am done nesting. Empty nest syndrome is a maladjustment to children leaving home and heading out on their own. I prefer to frame the experience as a success. You reared your children and now you are done nesting. Seems […]
Photos and Family History
Spent the day sorting through stuff in order to have a garage sale within a few days, and helping my husband organize the content of some boxes he brought back from being in storage in the state where he grew up. He passed through there when he came back from sabbatical on the East Coast. […]
Bucket List or Dream List
Been playing around with graphics today… one of my favorite things you might have deduced by now. I was playing with the title of this blog when I began thinking about the things I want to accomplish during this next phase of my life. A bucket list if you will. GBE2 had it as a […]
Holiday Juggling Squared Feeds A Writing Experiment
Oh I wish I had time to write the way I would like to write. The coming Holidays, my 21 year old’s graduation from university, her birthday, my husband’s 35 year old daughter, her husband who is adapting to have a prosthetic lower leg, and their twin 1 year old daughters, and her birthday all […]