My brother and I were my parent’s world. The special bond we all had was rooted in my parent’s departure from Ireland in the 1950’s, where they had both come […] Read more »
Okay. Not to sound like too much of a whiner, but I am so done with this winter and we are only 17 days in! It doesn’t help that my […] Read more »
Hold onto your hats! Here they come, earlier than ever, those magical and stress-inducing holidays! I knew we were in trouble this summer when back-to-school supplies began clogging the aisles […] Read more »
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love the fall! The brilliant colors, apple-picking, haunted hayrides, orange pumpkins, warm days, chilly nights and the smell of wood fires in the dusky […] Read more »
Everyone knows that one, special elderly couple, who although up there in years, is still managing to keep it together. Perhaps they are leaning on their neighbors, just a bit, […] Read more »
Whenever I see an ambulance whizzing by, lights flashing and sirens going, my first thought is always, “I hope everyone belong to me is safe at home or wherever else […] Read more »
I always feel that once we get through January, we have broken Winter’s back. In my mind’s eye I can see a calendar in which January’s page always looms larger […] Read more »
January 1 is my annual chance for redemption. It’s an opportunity to do all the things I didn’t do the year before….or the year before that. How can it be […] Read more »
It seems like I just put all the Christmas stuff away! The annual dragging of the brittle, petrified Christmas tree down to the woods, the packing away of our Christmas […] Read more »
It is very unsettling, indeed, to witness a loved one falling prey to Alzheimer’s. It’s hard to reconcile that your mother, father, aunt, uncle, or friend who looks the same, […] Read more »