Suprise Me

I was not nearly as concerned with the minutiae of planning my wedding as I was with the marriage that would follow.  In 1975, I married the love of my life (Don) following an almost three year engagement.  Three years in which we finished college degrees, endured parents on both sides who did not want… Read More

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As I age, I reflect back over all of the people who were important to me for a period of time and then lost as our lives took different paths. Read More

It felt like every one was recruiting me... Read More

The miracle of going back to sleep. Read More

The demise of the family dinner is definitely a loss. Read More

Mother Once a Native American man told me that if you lie face down  with head pointed north and feet pointed south the earth mother would accept any grief  in your heart                       cleansing you, freeing                   … Read More

I like hats. Hats can provide protection, inspire intrigue, and serve as typical or atypical representations of a hat wearer’s persona. I don’t often wear hats. I don’t think I look good in most hats, and I never know where to put them down when I’m not in the immediate need of a hat. Today,… Read More

For me, magazines are like comfort food. Not necessarily good for me, but all I want to read when I’m sick or feeling low. Read More

The One Who Got Away Like all red-bloodied,  pubescent American girls of the 50s I certainly did my share of dating. In junior high school we started to pair off and with little information and probably more mis-information about the birds and the bees,  we experimented.   (My cowardly parents,  rather than having that embarrassing… Read More