Month: September 2015

After one of Mal’s college dance recitals, we went with her roommates and dancer friends and their parents to have something to eat.  I sat down next to one of the other moms and we started talking about books.  I had just finished reading Wild, she was nearly finished with Wheat Belly.  We compared books, … Read more

Earlier this year an older couple two doors down passed away.  He went first and she followed 27 days later. Though both of them had been ill it was rather shocking that they would both go so quickly. There were no services or funeral and so when I saw her daughter’s car in the driveway I … Read more

“I’ll go with you, Mom,”” I said that Christmas Eve.  “To church tomorrow at 8:00 just like you and Dad always did. “You don’t have to.  I’ll be fine,” she said back. “I want to even though it’s going to suck.” “I hate when you kids say suck.” “We know you do, Mom, but this … Read more

I have been watching (because there’s no escape) the media circus in Kentucky with the anointed heroine for the sanctity of marriage via Adam and Eve style.  The one whose job requires her to issue marriage licenses to all since the Supreme Court ruling this summer protecting the rights of straight and gay people to marry. She shunned … Read more

An odd quiet has settled over this house of ours these days.  The kid who graduated college and got married has been gone for years.  The kid who graduated college and lived at home for two years has moved into his own apartment.  The kid who is in her last year of college spent all … Read more