It has been a little over two months since my mother’s funeral. The morning of her funeral, as I was getting dressed, the grief was so very heavy. The only way I can describe the feeling of loss is to say that it was a heaviness on my being like I haven’t previously experienced.
Chance and I were walking along the beach and talking when I stopped to pick up a couple shells. He shared a conversation with me that he had with his Aunt Linda. He and his aunt had been sitting along the beach when she wanted to share with him the shells she had...
A couple days after Christmas, Jimmy and I traveled to LaPlata to visit with his mother and family. We had talked and visited for a while when Jimmy left the room. I think his mother was waiting until we had a moment alone; she immediately asked me to hand her the...
I recently began Pilates and absolutely love it! I have always exercised but Reformer Pilates has been a new experience for me. It was during a recent class the instructor guided us through our side planks using the reformer. It went something like this: Place...
"Everybody's got stuff" is a phrase my girlfriends and I coined in the late 90's. It originated during a conversation discussing our current issues, the problems of other friends, and the difficulties our coworkers were experiencing. It summarizes the realization...
I have heard orchids described as tempermental.....finicky.....difficult.....beautiful..... My orchid was a gift on Christmas morning 2019. Perhaps it is the significance of that particular Christmas which makes my orchid so dear to me. If I am being realistic, in my...
