Where seeds of thought have room to grow
Category: Of Life and Love
-
The deep voice coming up out of the stairwell startled me this morning - Tom and Kendall were still asleep. No one else was home. Who could it be? But before I even had a chance to throw a butcher knife or something, Daniel's head (smiling face), then shoulders, then the rest of him appeared coming up…
-
It's he-ere…the Recession has officially landed in our front yard. Tom delivered the grim news when he got home last night: his company is freezing wages, cutting back executive salaries, and (as in Tom's case) having employees take two weeks off without pay. But, it could be worse…at least he didn't get laid off (like a…
-
Tommy was barely two weeks old when the most awful wave of out-of-control mother's anxiety/premonition overwhelmed me, and I burst into tears. I know it was just the combination of overactive hormones on an overactive imagination, (think gasoline on a fire), but my thoughts flew far into the future, to a world at war and my baby son all grown up and…
-
"I love you.""I love you more." Is this a competition or something? "Why do you always say that? What makes you think you love me more than I love you?" "Because no one could ever love anyone more than I love you."
-
He had white hair (evident on his head and even his pubic area) and small tattoos on his hands in that spot between his thumb and his pointer fingers. The fine print on the sign outside the entrance says he and the other bodies on display gave permission for their bodies to be used in this way,…
-
Christmas Day around here was lazy – centered around family and food. LOTS of food! We always have a traditional, heart-attack-waiting-to-happen breakfast on Christmas morning – bacon, fried eggs, and buttered toast. I ate so much that I still wasn't very hungry when Christmas dinner rolled around: non-traditional smoked brisket, chicken, and sausage. Of course, that…
-
The dogs and I walked through a valley shrouded in mist this morning – it swirled up under my umbrella, making me feel a little silly carrying it (in my defense, I thought it was raining when I glanced outside before heading out because the mist condensate was dripping from the porch overhang.) Four white-tail deer…
-
Having another child doesn't affect your life in a linear way, as all parents of more than one child will tell you. That's still true, even when the child is twenty. Daniel is home for Christmas break, and that means more laundry, more groceries, more cooking, more bickering, more vehicles breaking down so more shuttling…but it also…
-
I took the day off so I could break my procrastination cycle - I drove to the downtown campus and delivered my class portfolio a DAY EARLY! It's a small step in the right direction. I hope I can keep it going…eventually. But for the next few days I'm going to be playing catch-up on everything around…
-
The sky was filled with gray clouds on my walk again this morning, but my thoughts were filled with sunshine – my Sunshine Boy, that is, which is what I call Tommy because he's been lighting up my life since the day he was born…23 years ago today. I remember the first time I held him…
Long Hollow 