100 Words About Happy Things
(Casey at “Life With Roozle” issued a 100 word challenge…here’s my answer) Spent some time crying in the car today, in the rain. But Heather and Pete took a baby home from the hospital. Anna brought 3...
View ArticleMrs. Talmadge’s Backyard
Instead of walking down the sidewalk to my office, like I used to do, I’ve recently taken to cutting through Mrs. Talmadges’s backyard in the morning and afternoon. That’s not as rude as it sounds,...
View ArticleThe White Stuff
Q: Do you know what the white stuff in bird shit is? A: It’s bird shit, too. There’s no difference, y’all. There’s no better part of shit that makes it not quite so shitty. Just after Richard’s...
View ArticleTo Call Myself Beloved
The last poem in Raymond Carver’s collection A New Path to the Waterfall is called “Late Fragment.” Legend has it that his wife, Tess Gallagher, found it scribbled on a scrap of paper in the pocket of...
View ArticleSunday Sweetness–“Start the Day In Happiness, In Kindness”
Here’s a beautiful sunny day kind of poem by Mary Oliver, read by the author: Want more of her work? Follow this link: Want to read a classic Baddest Mother Ever story about kindness? How about:...
View ArticleThe Sanctity of Marriage and the Sweetness of Justice
My third husband put the kids to bed tonight because I was baking cookies for a fundraiser in memory of my second husband, and with all that time in the kitchen, I got to thinking about my first...
View ArticleA Little Patch of Blue Will Do
It’s been raining for a solid month. How do I know? Because the day my dad went to hospice–poured buckets. It rained until the day he died. Then it rained some more but we had a beautiful blue sky day...
View ArticleThe Grind
As this load of laundry that has thus far cost me $4358 to do spins in the dryer, let me tell you a story about why I was sobbing in the flooded basement over a broken old coffee grinder that I...
View ArticleToday I Pledge
It was a rough weekend. Anxiety pinched at my every breath. Couldn’t sleep, couldn’t stop thinking, couldn’t finish any of the tasks I had set for myself. Just…couldn’t. It’s been a rough month, what...
View ArticleHe Simply Doesn’t Know Better
Our Snowmaggedon turned into Snowmanothin’. The kids were full-on, wide open RAMPED up about having snow this weekend. I got pretty excited too after my trip to Fresh Market to lay in a weekend supply...
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