My daughter was cleaning out her room to get ready for my move to Santa Fe. She had collected so much stuff! Her “maybe” pile from last month became today’s “give away” pile. The framed print of an ivy covered stoop in Italy went into the give away pile while her green, velvet ice skating… Read more »
Luckily I will be able to sleep tonight. That’s my deadline to finish a project that I have been working on for months. Only fifteen more minutes to go until it is done. My husband and I took huge amounts of pictures of our family growing up. They are in the original camera store envelopes… Read more »
My son and daughter-in-law have a system. When their almost-three-year-old daughter misbehaves, instead of reprimanding her as a person, they say that she made a bad choice. She has to go to Time Out against the wall and count to ten. When she comes back into the family social place, she has to say what… Read more »
Today I went to see my 96-year-old mother-in-law who is bedridden, barely able to move and living with Alzheimer’s. I went to say good-bye. I thought that this might be the last time that I saw her. I wanted closure and to know that for one last time I told her that I loved her… Read more »
As this Thanksgiving weekend comes to an end, I am stuffed…with appreciation for my family. We spent three days together at my sister’s rural home in Pennsylvania, preparing food, sharing stories, playing games and washing endless dishes. From my coveted inflatable mattress on the floor, I cuddled with my grandchildren at sunrise and sipped hot… Read more »
