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Still (Five Minute Friday)

by | Dec 14, 2018 | Uncategorized

I’m very excited to again this week join a talented group of women who connect each Friday in an online, unedited flash mob free write based on a one-word prompt from our fearless leader Kate Motaung. My timer is set for 5 minutes; let’s see where the word...

Best-Laid Plans and All That

by | Oct 16, 2018 | Uncategorized

This past spring, once I decided I was going to retire, I began contemplating what I was going to do with all the newly-freed time available to me after the end of May.I bought a black-and-white marbled composition book — a long-time, very inexpensive guilty...

Birthday Musings

by | Jul 25, 2018 | birthday, celebration, father, husband, loss

This past Saturday, July 21, marked 9 years since my husband was told he had stage 4, inoperable cancer. He was only 47; he had exhibited absolutely no symptoms; there was no family history at all; he had just carried, along with my son, a couch up 12 flights of...

Decisions, Decisions

by | Jun 19, 2018 | choices, decisions, practical matters

I think I hold the record for the longest time taken to choose a new couch.If you don’t believe me, take my picture to any furniture store in the southeast quarter of the great state of Missouri. Sales associates in every one will no doubt remember me.On the...

Sharing the Hair-Brush Microphone

by | May 30, 2018 | journey, life, vacation

I’ve always loved road trips. As a child, I looked forward to our family’s annual vacation as much for the long car ride that would take us to our destination as I did the destination itself.In the weeks and months leading up to the trip, I would envision...