Yesterday I ventured down the garden path to my backyard garden. Since my poor stability, it is ninety percent on my deck under the now-dead Magnolia tree.Yesterday, I took a careful walk down the winding path of my garden, heading towards the backyard where my little oasis awaits. Given my challenges with balance, I spend […]
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Stillness at Five a.m.
Darkness Punctured by small dots of light from a tall wood cabinet, where sits the Christmas tree; its light source: hundreds of tiny fiber optic bursts that spring forth in pulsating sparkles… waves of colors each one melts into its successor. It sits high for a reason- the small gray Kitten perched in my lap […]
Sunday morning
I’ve started rising early again. I’ve been an Early-to-bed /rise person most of my life. In recent months I found myself sleeping longer, sometimes over nine hours. It rendered me groggy for the first hours and I knew those hours were not productive sleep. For the past few days I am up at five. I […]
What I said
Was I’ll get a good car and head West. There are places I wanted to visit and people to see. Yesterday, step one happened. After five years of looking and giving up in frustration, I took the advice of a trusted friend and visited a dealership again. To my amazement I was scooped up shortly […]
And away we go
123123123 The year is nearly over. Outside the usual revelers are firing thunderous pyrotechnics skyward to hurry this year along the way. It used to bother me as I grew older but remembering back when we were in our celebratory party years, we were the ones with the matches. Now things are different. The old […]
A small stone for Christmas
I wrote in a group some years back where we wrote what we called small stones. We, or at least I wrote brief fleeting thoughts and shared them. I liked the idea. I liked the group and it’s participants. Here are some small stones for the upcoming Christmas season. It could be Hanukkah just as […]
Imagine that
It was an early morning in early December. I fell asleep on the sofa-something rare for me. My warm water bed was so comfy I rarely slept elsewhere. I was awakened by my oldest son crouched beside me next to the sofa. “Mom you need to wake up. John Lennon was assassinated last night.” Still […]
Always thankful
So many reasons to be thankful yet sadness permeates between joyful smiles. There is a profound, lingering ache for those not with us. My parents, whose family home we gathered in, now my brothers house he shares with his life companion, my sister in love, Judywas still the host. Mother shared her last Thanksgiving, a […]
Book Review for At What Cost, Silence? by Karen Lynne Klink
This book was a slow yet, compelling read. I found myself reading in spurts, followed by rereading to gain clarity into the strengths of the main character, Adrien. The author’s titling of each chapter with the name of the character speaking was initially confusing to me. As the book progressed, those chapter titles were what […]
As Irish as potatoes
I was remembering my Grandpa Smith today as I planted bag after bag of seed potatoes in huge feed tubs, grow bags, and even the cardboard shipping container. Grandpa grew row after row of potatoes on his suburban farm in Shakopee , Minnesota I remember at least on time we visited at harvest time. All […]
Nancilynn is Writing again 