Category Archives: family

Happy Mother’s Day to the lovely women in my family and to my much-loved friends. I hope all the love and happiness you deserve comes your way.  Especially today. An old friend sent me this picture of my parents last … Continue reading →

There is a container of three-week-old coleslaw in the refrigerator. I have eaten toasted-cheese-with-fig-jam sandwiches at least twenty-one times in the past seven weeks. Sometime it is impossible to remember when I last washed my hair. I don’t let myself … Continue reading →

Monday was the funeral and I really don’t want to write about it.  Aside from it being a cold, gray, rainy and windy morning, it was certainly not the funeral I’d pictured for my mother.  I’d always envisioned the entire … Continue reading →

This picture was on my mother’s refrigerator for twenty-six years.  That’s how long she was without my father.  They were together for fifty years and very much in love until the end.  She never got over losing him. She died … Continue reading →

Last night ended five weeks of being isolated in the house. All of you out there know what that means. Along with tequila I had chips and salsa for supper.  Dessert was a bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. The entertainment … Continue reading →