Category Archives: Family and Friends

  It’s Mom’s Birthday! Happy Birthday, Mom!   Mom used to joke that she was like Jack Benny, forever 39. As my cousins got older, she’d tease them "You’re catching up to me!" Since she crossed over in 1990, Mom … Continue reading →

  When I was a young married woman at 20, we had a group of close male friends we hung out with. The guys were all single then, and we were the only married couple in our close-knit group. Most … Continue reading →

  Happy day, happy day! Today is my birthday and my friends and family have all made me feel so special! When I count my blessings, it’s these relationships that I count among my greatest and most treasured blessings of … Continue reading →

Today is J’s birthday – hurray! hurray!   Today she is 10 years old … a wise child, a funny child, witty, clever, beautiful in spirit, creative, intelligent, my fellow Aquarian. What can I say about this precious child, this … Continue reading →

  "I had a WONDERFUL day, Nana!" J was smiling and filled with happiness as we packed up her things so I could take her home. "Today was a great day!" I had to smile from ear-to-ear myself; it was … Continue reading →

Please pray for my brother’s health   My brother, S, and his wife are currently on vacation back east. (They live here in California, fairly close to me.) Yesterday, I received an e-mail from him there saying a blood clot … Continue reading →

totally grand   "Rip … Van .. WINKLE!" J declared, dropping her honeyed voice into a lower octave, sounding quite authoritative. And so we began, with J reading out loud to me, performing the words vocally as she read, changing … Continue reading →

 … with a smile   I had a dream about Mom Monday night: In my dream, she was very old, very thin and frail as I visited with her, with soft gray hair. Her hands were thin, thin … the … Continue reading →

Ed …   There are places I’ll rememberAll my life though some have changedSome forever not for betterSome have gone and some remainAll these places have their momentsWith lovers and friends I still can recallSome are dead and some are … Continue reading →