A picture of my mother, pregnant with me (seated, just left of center and staring straight into the camera), with 8 of her 10 sisters and a sister-in-law. (Oh, wait — 7 sisters and one niece.) I don’t know where my older brother is (napping?) but he would be very close in age to the […]
After doing laundry yesterday afternoon (climbing the steps several times) and attending daughter #3’s choir concert in the evening, I spent the night in agony. About two o’clock I finally succumbed to all the pain meds I had taken and fell asleep. This morning, predictably, I feel groggy and not much inclined to work on […]
I want to reblog this wonderful post found on FRIDAVILLE. “What Do You Do?”. Especially, please, please, click on the link to the poem by Charles Bukowski. Perhaps it will speak to you the way it spoke to me this morning. Let me make it easier: Charles Bukowski, “The Laughing Heart”
The universe has given me notice: Slow down or I will slow you down. On Sunday, while at a retreat near Hood Canal, I slipped on a grassy hill and fell, twisting my ankle. I don’t see the orthopedic specialist until next week, but it is broken at least in one place and maybe more. I’m […]