June is zipping by with the Summer Solstice only a few days away We are indeed slipping into the future. Structuring Time I have a timeline in my mind that I visualize when I think about the 20th Century. It has a “physical” structure. I think it may reflect a calendar that I saw and […]
Narration
is for Narration Narration If you want to share your story, your family’s story, your church group’s story, your ancestor’s story, or the story of someone you admire, you will eventually realize you are a narrator of someone else’s story, even if you are telling your own story. No, no need for schizophrenia. Narrating […]
Nice Days Normal Life
I want to write something normal, not something heady, insightful, or politically informed. I don’t want it to be about illness, depression, guns, or require a bunch of research. I have discovered some contentment has slipped in unbeknownst to me during the last couple of decades of life. In the next week my husband and […]
Summertime and Songs Flow Through My Mind
Generation Fabulous is both a group of women writers to whom I belong and the web magazine of the same name. The group founder is Chloe, then Anne and Sharon joined with her to create the magazine site. The topic for this month’s Gen Fab Blog Hop is Summer Songs. Summer songs are songs of the […]
I Am Daddy's Girl
Can you be a Daddy’s Girl by default? No one ever called me a daddy’s girl. I was not best friends with my mom either. Afterthought at best, and more accurately, an accident, that is what I was to my parents who in their 40s had an unplanned and unwanted fifth child. Me. A daughter […]
Veteran's Day
Veterans Day, once Armistice Day, on 11-11-11 and I’ve spent the day trying not to think too much about the veterans in my life. My husband is traveling and I miss him. Two of my brothers served in the military. Thinking about their service makes me sad. One, the elder of the two was almost […]