It has been downhill since mom’s 90th birthday. She has been moved to assisted living and grows frailer and more unsteady in mind and body. Two hospitalizations in November- the most recent on Thanksgiving day- have taken their toll and she grows thinner… Read More ›
Thanksgiving was my favorite holiday as a child. It was always shared with my father’s brother’s family and sometimes assorted other uncles and aunts, friends of the family, and cousins, lots of cousins. As a child there was little expected… Read More ›
Giving someone a name is serious business. I recall the spirited conversations about picking just the right name for my daughter and the endless conversations she and I had, figuring out names for her sons. There was so much to consider:… Read More ›
The best part of any trip, for me, is coming home. The places I visited may have been exotic, the people fascinating, and the landscape breathtaking, but nothing compares with the moment I step over the threshold and am safe… Read More ›
I spent a busy family weekend with my husband, daughter, son-in-law, grandsons and my son-in-law’s parents. At my grandson’s 4th birthday celebration, we were joined by my son-in-law’s sister, her husband, niece and nephew. A lot of words to describe the… Read More ›
Now we are Sixty 