She Is Here
The first grandbaby enters the circle of family, friends, and all creatures great and small, bringing a reminder to celebrate life.
Midriff Muse
Midlife Musings, Midriff Expansion (weight gain), Chronicles of Midlife Coming of Age and a few other things
Posts tagged Midlife Musings
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. [...]
Coffee Pot in a Box
One of the interesting things about having a hobby such as collecting old coffee pots is that people tend to think of you whenever they spot something that they think might belong in your collection. It’s sort of a warm fuzzy in many ways. A few years ago, my mother spotted this coffee maker at [...]
What Do We Mean When We Say Well-Rounded?
A woman’s body expands at the mid-section during middle age and not in a way that is charming like a pregnancy. I’ve tried for years to accept this thickening philospohically. The fact of the matter is that no matter how much I wax poetic about accumulated wisdom, a broadened perspective or even the [...]
For Halloween I Build Me a Church
I’m not one for the macabre or ghoulishness, never have been. My kids have always had hand-made costumes: horse, cow, southern belle, cell phone, giant baseball glove. I always have candy for trick or treaters. About a decade ago, I was moved to fill my yard with paper bag luminarias on Halloween night. I’ve done [...]
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 [...]
Hello Again
I have for some weeks now been bereft of any creative energy, hence my long absence. I have not even had the wherewithal to check in and read my favorite blogs from time to time and comment, which I feel terrible about because so many people are so great about leaving comments and kind encouragement [...]