My son has simply been absent more years than those spent with his family… His parents- now aging, his Grandparents passed away, and his children and grandchildren grew, all while he was gone. Yesterday he turned forty-four. I still see him In a large, sad corner of my mind, as a child. Well, he’ll always be […]
Weekend in the kitchen
This weekend I spent time in the kitchen! While normally one of my favorite things to do, canning, it seems that the Carpal Tunnel Syndrome that has attacked both hands, seems to genuinely be slowing me down. I did not realize it was so severe, although I know it makes it difficult to fall asleep […]
Late Spring
Two days remain in late April the thermometer has registered low 90s This is our signal and far more accurate spring prepares to exit This morning, our first magnolia bloom pulled me like a magnet to stand beneath and search for what my nose already told me was there… Three rows up and to the […]
The Legend of the Sauerkraut
My mother told me numerous times after I finished a long excited tale about my gardening…”you were born into the wrong century-the wrong generation”. Mom and her siblings were raised in the Great Depression…on a farm…in Minnesota. I heard the tales of milking the cows and feeding the chickens and dresses made from flour sacks. […]
Banging in my head
MRI Not necessarily scary What goes on in a brain? Holding still and watching myself breathe in the convenient face placed mirror “I did great”, according to the tech, She has no idea I used to be a tech in another life I know ” that’s all we were allowed to say”. I asked to […]
Winter
as near as winter gets here… Texas; howling wind screaming down the chimney; we did not make Fire tonight. Dawn promises chills in the teens! I promise eggs, grits, and a fire log, We’ll snuggle against nature’s Winter in our winter years…
Semi-retirement fog
It has been 7 weeks I’ve not really settled in there was vacation at the beach the holidays and the two little part-time jobs Now, there are no distractions I should be getting busy A gigantic household purge looms like the apocalypse; organization is my weakest suit. There are clothes to donate closets to clean crafts […]
Happy New Year
01012015 I am wracked with fatigue following a day filled with largely nothing. I did baby Romeo a little trying to nurse him back to health. I have new health issues of my own I cannot figure out…so I focus on his seasonal one instead. Hope everyone arrived in the new year relatively unscathed. But […]
Magical Autumn
Dawn slips in as I creep out into the crisp autumn morning Our resident crows have yet to stir at this hour, no bird greets me. the air is fresh cool, disguising what will be a record fall day as nineties are forecasted this is Texas, after all… my step is lite sidewalk almost cold on naked feet no sound […]
HELP
hatred will turn a heart to stone try as I will to not let it in some days, days like today, it does not just permeate with the stink of inhumanity. it kicks relentlessly at the chamber threatening to destroy everything to gain entrance Prayers I have prayed for peace on Earth my entire life […]
Nancilynn is Writing again 