Monthly Archive: May, 2012

weekly photo challenge: through

A view of my front yard through the window of my newly renovated master bedroom. I’m inclined to recycle vintage pieces wherever I can. Have you any idea where this architectural piece may… Read More

My Best friend actually sent me this...

Reblogged from Sisi's Blog: If you follow all the steps it only takes about a minute.. or 30 seconds.. it took me about a minute..

friends…and audrey hepburn…

  I’ve been missing in action these last several months, what with life grabbing me by the hair like some prehistoric hunk and making off with me. Like it or not, as with… Read More

64 years later…???

I wasn’t there when he was pulled from his warm, inner sanctum screaming at the top of his newborn lungs. And for obvious reasons. I was probably just a thought away from conception myself.… Read More

weekly photo challenge: summer

Here in the Pacific Northwest summer is but a fleeting moment in an otherwise gray, soggy landscape. So we don’t really discuss the weather except when the sun shines brightly and the warm… Read More

Future, What Future?!?

Reblogged from Love, Hate, Life: No one told me I had to have a future plan. You know what I’m talking about, what you’re going to do once you graduate from high school.… Read More

would i want to know?…would you?

A question we ask ourselves, those of us with loved ones who have succumbed to Alzheimer’s. I must admit to having pondered the possibility of being tested myself. Wouldn’t it be prudent to… Read More

…only the brave answer…

“If not me, then Who?” I think most of us prefer to ignore the question, for ourselves and our loved ones. My husband barely missed being shipped off to Vietnam in the late… Read More

warm and sunny…just like mama

It’s been awhile since I’ve bolted from bed, putting fingers to keyboard because  thoughts and words started assembling like soldiers in a military dress parade. But I was given my marching orders, so here I am, albeit a little bleary-eyed still. All… Read More

are we done yet???

The carpet installers are vacuuming up the remnants of their work as I type. Finally! The last “t” is being crossed, and the final “i” dotted, on the master bed/bath remodel we began… Read More

depression and alzheimer’s…linked?

succumbing to the “big d”…might get you the “big a”…hugmamma

braggarts???

storytelling…the downside?…hugmamma.

no greater love…than that of a mother for her child…

 A mom myself, I’m particularly sensitive to stories of moms and their offspring. I personally know many who continue to give of themselves in an effort to smoothe life’s path for their children.… Read More

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  • dance no matter what…

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