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Midlife Musings – the last one off to college!
Midriff Muse
Midlife Musings, Midriff Expansion (weight gain), Chronicles of Midlife Coming of Age and a few other things
Archive for Me, Myself and I
Yup – Got ‘er Done!
The youngest graduates from high school. Every kid is different and mother/son dynamics are different than mother/ daughter dynamics.
She Is Here
The first grandbaby enters the circle of family, friends, and all creatures great and small, bringing a reminder to celebrate life.
Daddy’s Girl
This was the post I put together when I discovered my blog was infected. I posted it to my writer’s group blog but in case you didn’t get to read it and with Dad’s 80th birthday coming up, I thought I’d share it here.
Yesterday I bundled up without regard for fashion or vanity to spend [...]
Remembering to Look at the Small Picture
It’s Foodie Tuesday theme on the www.opensalon.com blog where I also post. In keeping with that, I try to do a piece about one of the vintage coffee pots in my collection each week. The coffee set featured here was given to me by Hawk and the kids for Mother’s Day some year’s [...]
Grief
Grief doesn’t keep a schedule. It doesn’t look in and ask: “is this an okay day for you? Cuz if it isn’t, I can come back another time.” Grief pretty much comes by when it needs to. I guess.
I knew this was coming and I thought I had it worked out. [...]
Veteran’s Day – Geneseo, IL
Yesterday I joined my sister, Peggy and my mother for a road trip to Geneseo, IL to visit Peggy’s son Mark and his wife, Kyle and their three children: Connor, Cailin and Carson.
This morning we learned that the city honors its veterans by displaying a flag for every citizen who has served, each flagpole [...]
I couldn’t help myself …
I didn’t want to do a new post so soon because I like to leave a few days space because I’m afraid that if I post too many too fast hardly any will get read and I really do hope that you all read the previous post of Sedona Series – Part II, but [...]
Sedona Series – Part II
Landing in Phoenix was one thing, we still had a couple of hours of “gettin to Sedona to do.” You will remember, if you read the first piece in this series, that back in Milwaukee, we had chided my brother Joe, for putting a kink in the general plans for streamlined travel by electing to [...]
Baby is 22
Shannon is my second born. She arrived in this life in much the same manner that she arrives anywhere: with the intent to be there – a short fast burst of labor, and there she was in my arms. Her Dad and I had been seated at the counter of a home decorating store, paying [...]