The dog woke me up at 7am and wanted a long walk. And, he was peppy. He did his business, sniffed the roses, and looked up at me with his brown/green eyes. I was going to take this to be his way of communicating “happy mother’s day” to […]
It is my sister’s birthday. Amusingly, she celebrates her birthday starting December 1st. She is definitely one of those who believes in the concept of a birthday month. I suppose I do something similar in that my birthday falls in May and I get to celebrate mother’s day […]
The world is wacky, weird, and wondrous. All simultaneously. And we each contribute to the oddities all around us. We clap, at times, at the weird. We encourage wackiness. I know I certainly do. As a matter of fact, I own my quirkiness. I revel in it. I […]
The winter solstice has come and so has my sister. My family is whole now in Los Angeles. Today is the shortest period of daylight and the longest night of the year and the house is teeming with love, energy and giggles. Right at the end of the […]
I don’t even know where to begin. The last 24 hours were extremely stressful and anxiety-inducing. At 6:00 a.m. two days ago, I received a text message from my sister noting that she was scared. She was very scared. Then, I didn’t hear from her at all for […]
I am older than my sister by more than nine years. I grew up partly as an only child. With nine years into such a status, it was a bit hard to switch to being an older sister. I went from being the one and only to being […]
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