Category Archives: Family

Sometimes I think I am spending much of my adulthood recovering from my childhood, and I mean that in the nicest possible way, because my growing up time was terrific – I was blessed with exemplary parents, wise mentors, and valuable education and training. Of course, valuable traits are not the only ones I brought with me […]

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The very nice ladies at Like Mother, Like Daughter do a link-up on Thursdays called Pretty, Happy, Funny, Real, in which they invite other bloggers to post a photo for each category to help “capture the context of everyday life,” a goal I wholeheartedly endorse.  Go there to see what’s Pretty, Happy, Funny, and Real in […]

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Even though our offspring are deep into their teens and twenties and we just now threw out the jack-o-lantern, the grandparents have been badgering the kids and me for their wish lists for Christmas gifts. This is an annual ritual as familiar as the turkey on the Thanksgiving table. You, too? Even during an economically […]

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My sister with her second-born daughter. (My children were born before the advent of the digital camera.) “A mother’s love for her children, even her inability to let them be, is because she is under a painful law that the life that passed through her must be brought to fruition. Even when she swallows it […]

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This is a cautionary tale.  We know it is, because there is a banner that reads, “Caution.”   It is about the building of a brick privacy wall. (And I have no idea why this picture insists on not being centered. I have worked with it and worked with it. Oh, look — by […]

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