Showing posts with label mothers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mothers. Show all posts
Friday, September 28, 2018

Soul Flier

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How could you have grown up so fast, when the day you were born, you, grown up, seemed a million years away?  Syd and me when she was about ...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

A Duckling at Sea

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Getting a feeling that your two-year-old has more sense than you do isn't pleasant.  I had that feeling at a party for my daughter'...
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Sunday, July 15, 2018

Tales of the Unexpected

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Sometimes a snappy retort is welcomed and sometimes, not so much. Sometimes what comes from a loved one's mouth in our time of need is n...
Sunday, March 11, 2018

Bridge Years

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The day that would have been my mother's 93rd birthday passed in January. The second anniversary of her death fell in February. She is s...
Sunday, February 18, 2018

Legs

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When I was about 10 years-old, it occurred to me that I didn't like my legs. It happened as I was shooting them a sideways glance in a d...
Sunday, December 17, 2017

Giving Christmas the Old Heave-Ho-Ho-Ho

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Those of us who celebrate Christmas are coming down to the final turn with just eight days left until the big day. Or the big show. Or the “...
Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Two Tabbies and a Motherly Mutt

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Poor Kitt.  Kitt is a gray tabby, and she was our only pet until the kids and I adopted Hope, a high-strung, black and white mutt with l...
Saturday, May 20, 2017

Everything You Need to Know about OCD, Scrabble, and Life

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One evening, years ago, my friend Lucy's phone rang, and the name showing in the phone's little window was "Ma."      I...
Sunday, April 2, 2017

Mercurochrome and the Mothers of Spring

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All hail the Mothers of Spring! They were that fast, fierce, elite team of first responders always on the scene whenever their baby boomer ...
Sunday, February 28, 2016

Honey, People Like You Should Never Go to Those Places By Themselves

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Recently I lost my mother. In its grief, my brain scrambles to recall details of her more recent self while things that happened years ago s...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Heart Murmur

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When my mother was 91, sick, weak, and giving up her life, I wanted to tell the healthcare workers the things I knew that they did not.   ...
Sunday, January 10, 2016

The Long Arm of the Law

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What do Matt Dillon, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp and my mother have in common? Each could put the fear of God into any gunslinger, or in the c...