This grandson turned 2 over the summer. When I was eight, I thought being a grandmother would make me really decrepit. I also thought I would know more by the time I was a Nana. Oh, I have more useless knowledge in my head, but I really expected to be wiser by the time I […]
I Thought Debt Was a Negative – Silly Me
We live in a nutty world. Nuttier than a squirrel’s stash in winter. I had a conversation with my bank a while ago that still has me shaking my head. My husband and I have a joint checking/savings account. In addition, I have a separate checking/savings account. Not because we divide the money, or I […]
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Sweet, Sweet September
September has whizzed by. It was a delightful month with travel and family and a few surprises along the way. I have to say, the hubs and I have not experienced a relatively stress-free, smiley kind of month in awhile. It took us some time to adjust to not being caregivers of my folks anymore. […]
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Beach Girls
I was flipping through old posts yesterday, and this one from 2014 took me back to a glorious week… I’m at the beach this week with some women friends, and I’m experiencing/learning some wonderful things. 1. I’m living in a house just yards from the beach, where not a car engine is heard, and the […]
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Surprises After Loss
I lost both of my parents last year (2020); Mom in January, Dad in December. I had looked after these two for 12 years, and I didn’t know what life would look like after they were gone. For the first two months after Dad passed, we were tied up with paperwork and planning a virtual funeral […]
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A Birthday Letter to Dad
Happy birthday, Dad! How you loved birthdays and all celebrations! This will forever be a favorite picture of mine. You have been physically gone from my life since Dec. 15 of 2020, just 5 short months ago. After Mom passed in Jan. 2020, you were never the same. The cruelty of Covid then arrived and […]
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Gratitude in 2020 (yep, really)
2021 can’t seem to come quickly enough. Not that anything miraculous will occur on Jan. 1, 2021, but one can hope. It feels like all the virtuous fairies and Saints, the good Darma, positive returns from the Universe, and even God abandoned us in 2020. For me and my family, we were only 15 days […]
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An Uncomfortable Conversation: the Pro-life Vote
When George Floyd was murdered earlier this year, the nation erupted in rage and blame and heartache. It was horrific to see one human being so mercilessly kill another. And then, a barrage of words and terms, some new, some not: Black Lives Matter, Black Out Tuesday, White Privilege, White Fragility, Colorism, Defund the Police, […]
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