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Twenty
The Internet insists on reminding me that my oldest is no longer a teenager. My email told me when I logged on this morning: Skype told me after enticing me to open it with a notification in my...
View ArticleAbout me: In search of definition
Last week when I posted my dilemma on Facebook regarding my “about me” statement, my mother’s pastor suggested I change it to “Mother of two…In search of definition”. I chuckled at the comment, but...
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The Birthday Quake
Just a quick post to let you know we survived the earthquake on August 23. I was sitting at my computer in my attic office when the desk began to shake. My first thought was — as it always is when my...
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A Tree Grew in Bethesda
When we moved into our home nearly 20 years ago we were pleased to have a number of trees on our property. We had a ginkgo, two maple trees (one sugar and one red), a tulip poplar and a mulberry —...
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Designing Dad’s Headstone
After my father died I knew that we’d need to think about a headstone, but was too busy dealing with insurance stuff as well as my own grieving process to want to handle it right away. I sort of...
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Twenty-one
My oldest child turns 21 today. No longer a child (although she hates when I say that). Although I can remember life before her, I have a hard time remembering a time when I didn’t know her. She’s...
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Feeling the love
Andrew — the star of the weekend Last weekend we (Dean, his sister Diane, and I) visited Andrew in Oberlin, Ohio for Oberlin College’s Family Weekend. Diane joined us because we told her how much fun...
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Farewell Apollo
In or around 1996 Dean’s mom bought a new car. If my memory is correct she wasn’t exactly delighted with it at the time — I think she thought it was too sporty. Apollo, the intrepid traveler After she...
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Gone for good
The miracle zinnia has died. Andrew has returned to Oberlin. Clare has left for her Big Adventure in the Northwest. The zinnia had an incredibly long life — for a zinnia — so its demise doesn’t really...
View ArticleToo soon, too soon
I don’t know if Marc was at the first Dan Bern show I attended. I don’t think he was at the most recent Dan Bern show I attended. I do know, however, he will not be at the next Dan Bern show I will...
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Happy 100th Birthday, Grandma Green
Happy Birthday Grandma Green Today marks the 100th anniversary of my Grandma Green’s birth. I’ll celebrate by making macaroni & cheese and tuna fish for dinner because we discovered that taste...
View ArticleMy 24 hours away from the Internet
Not counting using my phone to check Facebook notifications (one time) and email (about 10 times), I spent yesterday Internet free. I mean I never used my computer to connect to the Internet. Here’s...
View ArticleI think I’m in love
If you know me or read my blog, you may or may not be aware of my love-hate relationship with Bethesda. We moved to Bethesda from a friendly neighborhood in Alexandria, Virginia. I was a relatively new...
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Cat [Poop] Lady
When, at age 13, I first got an indoor cat it was my responsibility to change the litter. We actually didn’t use litter, but Oil-Dri that my dad got in huge bags from the auto-mechanics’ store. I’d...
View ArticleOutcast lunch table
Going from elementary school to junior high, I only had a handful of friends and none of them had the same lunch period as I did. I remember timidly walking into the cafeteria looking for a place to...
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Eighteen
Eighteen years ago today my obstetrician said I could get out of bed and stop taking Terbutaline. Eighteen years ago today I got up, showered, dressed and drove to the obstetrician. Eighteen years ago...
View ArticleKidding aside: Some not so random thoughts
Note: This post is a response to posts by (in order of how I read them) Indigo Bunting, Mali, Lali, and Bridgett. I gave birth to two children. I wanted them and I had them. I’d have three if the stars...
View ArticleA lesson learned
The past few weeks have been full of family. I spent a week with my mom in Elgin then my mom and nephew visited us for a week (they drove back with me). Clare flew in from Olympia a couple days before...
View ArticleTime
Until last February I never really thought about time so much. Not about my time — my time left on Earth, what my time was worth, my remaining good time. But in February I discovered something that...
View ArticleWalking with Sandy
Since the beginning of 2015 six people I knew died (well, one died in late December, but I heard about it in January. Harold, my sister-in-law’s father died first. He was in his nineties and had...
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