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These are pictures taken of my Dad, Floyd J. Harrison, throughout the years-his wedding to my mother in 1946,( top center) in the Navy, in Vietnam( top left) and various other pictures. The one with me, bottom center, was taken on Thanksgiving 2010 and the fishing picture was taken by my brother, Dan in 2009. I […]

Annabelle Lee lived across the road from my Granny’s house, we met the year I was ten. She had piercing ice- blue eyes long hair the color of straw and she never wore shoes.   Annabelle Lee could run like the wind! She was with me that time I fell on the edge of the […]

There is no year written here just June 10 because every year it arrives to find me in a melancholy state of mind heralding its arrival. on June 10, 2004 I lost my son, my first-born child. We spoke on the telephone  early that morning; by evening he was dead I keep waiting for the […]

I can feel it coming… Summer, in the same way I feel a winter storm or bellyache after too many sweets. it starts slowly… one day warm maybe a few cool days, the next day warmer than the first, then suddenly all the way to hot… stifling hot. The air at daybreak is still… humid, still […]

I am uncertain why a good Catholic girl ok, raised well-strayed but remained Catholic at the cellular level forgot briefly to ask Saint Anthony, Patron Saint of lost belongings for the location of my new camera. It has worked previously with cell phones and missing birth certificates…   Today I remembered and prayed and the […]

Up before dawn now requires two alarms and I still manage to remain horizontal much longer than ever in the past sometimes I am already vertical and my mind is still prone… I take two blood pressure pills a thyroid pill and have access to a tranquilizer for anxiety… They make me loopy so I […]