This time You gave me a Mountain It was a scorching Texas summer afternoon and I was in the pool. The water cold, taking the edge off what might turn into a tan once the sunburn healed…that never happened to me. Music was playing on the stereo on my balcony-three floors up. My bathing […]
Texas Summer
I woke up early for a Saturday but not as early as I, as a rule, do. The weather today: typical Texas late June, 90’s with high humidity. This litany of weather will remain more or less unchanged except the final degree of heat, […]
Father’s Day-first year without my Dad
My very wise father, Floyd Harrison, gave me this advice when I was about 16 years old, when weekends cut into dating time, ” find a team and root for that team-win or lose, that will be your team! Learn everything about your team! Men love football and will appreciate a woman who also does.” I could […]
Tragedy strikes
My extended family, a great grandson’s mom, died last night of a heroin overdose. She was twenty one. Her son, Caleb, is five Holli, his sister, is about two. Will they remember and miss their mom? Her Mother is a Facebook friend of mine and she will grieve this loss forever… I KNOW… I grieve the […]
Peaceful rest
The sky, still darkened, sent thunder in waves thunder rolling nearer, louder tucked in for the night I stretched to see the clock early still Yawning, I turn over to await the promised rain
Soft spring morning
No alarm this morning awakened by only soft dappled light streaming through the white curtains Grab coffee- warm creamy and comforting, then out to admire the urban garden we aspire to- rather than lawn that must be maintained. Small chickadees play chase between the birdfeeders and the tall ash tree from the neighbor’s yard, while a squirrel […]
Magnolia
On Monday, I came home after another brutal Monday they, the Mondays, all run together now. I did not even step outside to see what happened in the garden today… Our garden, my Joy… to be brutally honest I did not care. old joke-bad joke “A man comes home and kicks the dog” At least I […]
Inner turmoil
Time races forward towards June. Soon it will be here, the worst month of each year when my Pied Piper answered a whispered call, he could or would- not turn down… I feel anxiety stretching taut over me head to toe over me like the five tiny kittens I once saw swaddled in plastic and tucked in […]
I heard it snowed today in Denver
I heard it snowed today again in Denver all the ground looks like a frosty, winter wonderland Here in Texas it has been another a muggy day why we aren’t getting rain I can’t quite understand Storm clouds are moving up now from the coastline they spread and shroud the Monday morning sky The pressure in the air is heavy […]
¡Me estoy sonrojando!
I spent the day in the kitchen… for breakfast, French Toast, which I learned many decades ago is called “lost bread”in Louisiana…likely because that is what they use the “bread-past-its-prime” to make. I used fresh Oat grain bread, because I have two loaves of it, fresh from the co-op yesterday and I wanted to try […]
Nancilynn is Writing again 