When I started writing my book entitled, All the Dancing Birds, an illogical and imaginative leap into the mind of Alzheimer’s, I started with nothing more than an interesting idea and a brave swallow. Within the first few pages into … Continue reading
I watch my sister slowly inch her way down the stairs from her second-story apartment. She moves one step at a time, sideways like a sea crab, holding tightly to the railing so the ocean tide of frailty doesn’t wash … Continue reading
I know I don’t write here every day. Great spans of time often pass from one post until the next. Some days I have nothing to offer that doesn’t seem (to me) of the least bit of interest, or thought … Continue reading
Learn the Michael Jackson Thriller Dance, the brochure read. Okay, so a lifetime of sedentary desk work brings a woman to the point where it’s either get up and move or sit there and spread. Since the spreading of Auburn … Continue reading
Here’s exactly how I danced when I found out that we’re moving tomorrow to a better hotel … a downtown Nashville hotel with delightful food, real room service and … double-ply toilet paper! [Thanks to my friend, Shauna, for posting … Continue reading
So here I am … trying on my sunglasses and packing for a trip to Nashville, Tennessee. NASHVILLE!!! The city of Stars! Singers. With guitars. Folks who drink sweet tea and can’t say a sentence without mentioning y’all somewhere in … Continue reading
So here’s the conversation: Dan: I hurt my eye last night. Me: What? What happened? [Speaks with the heightened alarm of a caring wife] Dan: This happened. Husband points at eye, which is bruised and nearly swollen closed] Me: Holy … Continue reading
Tyrone Wells – More May you have more and more of life and love and happiness today and always!
I can’t do it. I can’t write in the margins of a book. I can’t allow my hand to fold down the corner of a page until it resembles a fragile origami bird wing. I can’t make pen marks alongside words that took … Continue reading
AUBURN’S BEAUTIFUL NEW POODLE CHAIR READING AND TEA-SIPPING CORNER What can I say? Sometimes it just doesn’t do to place something on one’s Magical List of Onces. Thus, Behold! Another item for my Mystical List of Hases. Perhaps tomorrow we … Continue reading