I’ve always wanted to be one of those women like my mother was. In fact, pretty much my entire adult life has been spent trying to figure out how to be her. You see, my mom was one of those women that are so rare. She had that “quiet and gentle spirit” that the Bible [...]
Once, when I was around 11 or 12 years old, my mother was going to the grocery store. I really, really didn’t want to go so I begged my mom to let me stay at home alone. Now this wasn’t something that they allowed often, but my parents were just starting to let me stay [...]
Everyone who knows me well knows that I love music. My life is lived to a soundtrack and I can pretty much tell you what was going on in my life and what I was feeling when I hear a song from way-back-when. My friend Kathryn and I used to break out into song at [...]
As usual, my life has been a whirlwind of activity and I can’t seem to slow down long enough to even blog about anything. So here I go again with another post that encompasses a couple of three months of stuff. November: Bella and I took a long overdue trip to visit family in California [...]
I have been blessed with four Mothers in my life. Most people get one but any of you who know me well know that I am “special” and seem to always be different from everyone else. So, I get four of them. The good thing of it is they have all four meant different things [...]
When my mother was dying, I went to visit her in California. We both knew at that point that it was the last time we would ever see each other alive. As such, it was extremely hard for us to communicate what we wanted/needed to say to each other without breaking down and crying. My [...]
This is a poem that someone once shared with me. It sums it up well. Once there were two women Who never knew each other One you do not remember The other you call mother Two different lives Shaped to make yours one One becoming your guiding star The other became your sun. The first [...]
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