To Absent Friends
Over the weekend I was talking with a friend who had just lost her mother. In listening to her recount her loss, my emotion swelled up and a tear sprang loose, […]
Over the weekend I was talking with a friend who had just lost her mother. In listening to her recount her loss, my emotion swelled up and a tear sprang loose, […]
This week’s Remember the Time blog hop theme is birthdays. It’s pretty sad that I’ve reached an age in which I can look back on turning 30 with nostalgia, but […]
This month’s Remember The Time blog hop is joining up with the Weekly Writing Challenge for the theme: a memory told through the viewpoint of someone else. When I first […]
Note: This post began as a type of therapeutic, personal journal entry for me. I debated whether or not to share it publicly. But then I read Jayson D. Bradley’s […]
This week’s Remember the Time blog hop theme is “your first day of school.” Frankly, I have a terrible memory and don’t remember my first day of kindergarten, junior high, […]
Eight years is a long time. For a third-grade little girl, it is a lifetime. It was two days before Thanksgiving, 1985, and two days before my dad’s birthday. Living […]
We were traveling over the holidays and I must have missed the latest social networking trend: choosing a theme word for the new year. I’m not one to make resolutions […]
This past September marked three years since my mom lost her battle with breast cancer. Before losing her I had experienced grief…the grief of losing beloved grandparents…the grief of a […]
Check me out. I was an angel. And I say that with just the slightest bit of sarcasm because on most accounts I was. I am a rule follower. If […]
I decided to join in once again for this week’s Remember the Time, wild card edition! This week we get to choose our very own nostalgic theme. Yay, us! As […]