So here we are beginning a new year. A few days ago, on my birthday, I said that I was not in the mood for a sappy romp through the past. Today I have changed my mind. I am a woman; changing my mind is a woman’s prerogative, isn’t it? Prerogative or not, I am about to take a look back at the highlights of 2010 in my world. The early part of the year was calm for us though…
Today is my birthday. I thought about all of the things that I could write about to commemorate this occasion and then I thought again. I’m not really in the mood for one of those sappy romps through the past nor am I in the mood for a prophetic foray into the future. My solution, which may or may not be a good one, is to share a poem that I wrote a couple of weeks ago. I don’t often…
t is December 26th and I have emerged from beneath the Christmas rubble into the after-Christmas haze. The empty boxes, shreds of wrapping paper and abandoned bows have all made their way to the trash, most of the gifts are resting comfortably in their new homes, and the holiday leftovers have been tucked away in the refrigerator. We tried to keep things simple and low-key, but that is not the way things looked around here yesterday. When you have seven…
So why was I at the mall again this weekend? I was on a top secret mission. No, I was not looking for a Christmas gift. And no, I have not finished Christmas shopping, but yesterday was not the day for that. Despite what you may be thinking, I was not checking up on Santa to make sure he was doing what he is supposed to be doing at this time of year. My assignment was to be in the…
For reason I will explain in my next post, I found myself yesterday afternoon at the same mall where I spent last Saturday afternoon. What are the chances? I have lived in Dallas for twenty-seven years. In the past eight days, I have doubled the number of times I have set foot in this particular mall. I was glad to see that with only a week until Christmas, Santa is beginning to get serious about his job. He is no…
The semester is over! At exactly 4:14 Thursday afternoon I turned in my grades. What have I been doing since then? I’m not really sure. All I know is that we have made three trips to the airport in the last twenty four hours; everyone is coming home for the Christmas break and I have done very little, well actually, I have done nothing to get ready for the holidays. In an effort to remedy that sad situation, we went…
I wonder if we are born knowing to wonder or wanting to wonder,If wonder is a gift or a curse. I wonder why I am different or if I am different,Why I care or why you do. I wonder if we all see the same colors,Is my blue also your blue, my red your red? I wonder if we see the same good and the same evil,Know the same despair and the same hope. I wonder why some of us…
I must begin by confessing that Thanksgiving is one of my least favorite holidays – not because of its intention, but because of the way we go about “celebrating.” Most of us run ourselves ragged preparing a meal that amounts to enough food for a week or two but is consumed in one afternoon in a time span that is probably equal to one tenth of the time it takes to make it all. We tried to keep it simple…
It has been awhile since I posted a picture of the newest member of our family. Here is the latest picture of Frankie. She moves quickly, as kittens do, so I never hae time to get my “real” camera out. Usually the best I can do is to snatch my phone from my pocket, which is the case here. Don’t mind the fact that she has made herself comfortable in the middle of the coffee table. This is an improvement…
There are lots of things that I could have, and maybe even should have done today. Make a shopping list of all the necessary items for a home-cooked Thanksgiving meal. Go grocery shopping so that I can purchese all the necessary items and get a head start on the preparations for a home-cooked Thanksgiving meal. Dig out and then iron the table linens so that I have a worthy place to serve a home-cooked Thanksgiving meal. Find a loving new…