There was a time in my mother's life when she had waaaay too much going on, and every Sunday she would come home from church in the afternoon, go to her room, and shut the door. She did not have a Do Not Disturb sign because she did not need one. Nobody was that crazy. … Continue reading Like My Mama
Month: March 2017
Of Goodness
My cousin Larry died last night. This is in no way a shock; he had been in a nursing home for years. Larry was 70 years old, I think. For 63 of those years, he was in a wheelchair. Larry contracted polio when he was seven, in the early 50s, right before the first vaccine came on the… Continue reading Of Goodness
Precious Memories
Paul and I escaped for the weekend to celebrate our anniversary. We're only an hour's drive from home, but it's plenty far enough, and we've been to this place before. It's always great, and we're comfortable here. (And we avoid a long car drive and the resulting crankiness.) So we checked in and got to… Continue reading Precious Memories