A Eulogy for My Old Man
May 6, 2015 My ‘old man’, as he insisted I call him, had been dying for almost ten years now. You would have thought this eulogy would have been written and rewritten and rewritten, but I never started it until last night. He outlived the doctor who told him he wouldn’t see the …
How NOT to Train your Dog
Why expose yourself to the elements when you can easily train your dog to run out the front door to retrieve your morning newspaper? I was halfway home from not having to run out in the rain or snow in my PJs anymore as I already had a 100-pound chocolate Labrador Retriever. All I had …
A Unique Journey
My mother’s ashes sat in a plastic bag, in a plastic box, on a closet shelf in her brother’s townhouse for a couple years. Not exactly the dignified end she anticipated when she passed away in 2001. We had to return the rented urn after the funeral and plastic is what they gave us in …
BABY’S FIRST BATH!
He was a very, very young baby boy, and I, then 42, was an old, old first-time mom. Only home from the hospital a couple of days, it was time to give him his first bath. My husband, 11 years younger and someone who had grown up around babies, inexplicably let me take the lead. …
OFFICIAL LAUNCH!!!
It’s been years in the making but here we finally are. I read somewhere recently that writers should not hold back, should not save their best stuff for later, or for an upcoming book. Give it everything you’ve got and more will rise up. That hit me soundly, shattering all ill-conceived ideas of saving my …