These are my reading glasses. I resent them deeply. Yes, even though they are a fun color and have cool temples that fold down so I can read on my side in bed. The other day, I was trying to figure out why. I don't think it's because they are a visible sign that I… Continue reading Fuzzy Letters
The Light Behind
I paused at the end of the drive a little more than two weeks ago to take the picture below. I was on my way to a hospital. My niece had a baby on a Saturday morning, more suddenly and traumatically than we had hoped. I got a call from my sister that her grandson… Continue reading The Light Behind
Sleepy Reader
There I am, sleeping in my father's recliner. Mostly he was the one who slept in that chair. He always started by reading The Daily Record, the local paper out of Wooster. It was delivered in the late afternoons then, and it was still a full-size broadsheet, and he read it after supper. He tried,… Continue reading Sleepy Reader
Stuck In the Middle
Today as I sit here and write, I'm okay. But I'm going to share something with you that I created when I was not okay. Last week, I was really upset. We ran into a little red tape with some of Levi's medications, and it looked like we were going to end up paying thousands… Continue reading Stuck In the Middle
More About the Snow
When we ventured out of the house for the first time after last weekend's snow, I wasn't planning to trek anywhere except in and out of the gym parking lot, which I hoped was plowed and salted. Paul drove us all out the lane slowly, testing the conditions. "Oh, stop!" I said as we approached… Continue reading More About the Snow