So I've done it again--eaten too much sugar, gotten myself too busy, forgotten to pace myself. And I'm paying for it in pain. Dollars would be easier. I haven't given an update of my fibromyalgia for a long time, so last night I searched for the word in my search box. And below is what …
Missing My Sister Esther
“You’re coming up to a small town that has an historical marker,” Esther texted to me as Marv and I drove along I-10 in Texas. We were on our way to Arizona in January of 2017; Esther was grounded in Michigan during her chemo and radiation treatments for esophageal cancer. She did not despair that …
Grief at Thirty-six Months: Honey, would you please…
Always busy in the garage, he'd be shocked that I've put furniture together! Come back for just a day? I want to tell you about— The water softener spraying water over the furnace room The beetles eating your rose bushes The pipe that burst; the hole in the bedroom wall The dying evergreens I had …
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Thoughts on Character
"I have enough character," I've been known to say when anyone tells me that a trying experience for me "builds character." I've thought a lot about character this last week as I dove into David Brooks' The Road to Character (2015) for a book club discussion. Not a quick read. I could say just slogging …
Z is for Zany
The final entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April challenge At my fiftieth high school reunion some years ago, a grade school classmate, whom I hadn't seen in years, told me she remembered me as being zany. I smiled and hoped it was a compliment, because I didn't know what the word …
Y is for Yellow
An entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April challenge. A true story I wrote about myself in the early 2000s. I was practicing writing in third person; Anne was me at an earlier age. Yellow worked itself into Anne’s life in an odd sort of way. She wasn’t really aware of the …
X is for Xerox
An Entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April challenge First, to make copies, it was carbon paper between onion skin paper on my old upright Royal typewriter. Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Then it was standing by a mimeograph machine and turning the roller round and round. Then it was standing by …
W is for Westminster
An entry for the Blogging A to Z in April challenge In addition to my daughter and her family, two communities saved my life when we moved after fifty years in Chicago, a city of about 3 million, to the much smaller Sioux Falls, a town of under 300,000. Those two are OLLI--Osher Life Learning …
V is for Victory
An entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April challenge. The first word that came to mind with the letter V was victory. And with victory the words and tune of the song V is for Victory cascaded from my memory. I remember learning this song in Christian School, probably in the lower …
Write Along with Me 