Plans change but the celebration remains
My Thanksgiving was loaded with: gratitude (I have so much to be thankful for), laughter (the side-splitting, jaw-aching kind), food (a […]
The Family
Sur-prise! Sur-prise! Sur-prise!*
I recently returned from a trip to my hometown of St. Louis. The occasion was to surprise my mother for […]
Gifts do not equal love and other observations about holidays
It is awfully nice to get a card on your birthday, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Christmas, Easter, etc. […]
Love you but not absorbing your pain
How do you keep from absorbing the pain of your loved ones? If your mate is ”having a terrible, horrible, […]
Mama Clarsie’s biscuits – a memory
Mama Clarsie would let me eat as many of her delicious biscuits as I wanted and never tease me about […]
Happy Mother’s Day to my children
Happy Mother’s Day, Amber & Cy. Without you, there would be no Mother’s Day for me.You are the biggest accomplishments […]
Seeing is Believing
As a mother whose children live over yonder, there comes a time when phone conversations and emails won’t do, no […]
The Mother Ship Arrived and Departed
I know that I didn’t give my mother a proper hug when I saw her on Tuesday and Wednesday, because […]