Too Old for Too Long?
posted 15 days ago, updated 1 minute later | 4 comments
I had really not given much thought to changing my hairstyle until I read an alarming internet article this week.
The article was about Callista Gingrich's "helmet hair," a hairstyle that is frighteningly close to mine, right down to the color bu...
The article was about Callista Gingrich's "helmet hair," a hairstyle that is frighteningly close to mine, right down to the color bu...
The Latest Version of Linda
posted 21 days ago | 2 comments
Why is it, I wonder, that we are often afraid to tell people how we really feel?
From my own perspective, if I'm totally honest with myself, it's because of my own insecurities. I've found myself cringing at offensive comments or jokes that other...
From my own perspective, if I'm totally honest with myself, it's because of my own insecurities. I've found myself cringing at offensive comments or jokes that other...
A Reminder from Dorothy
posted 25 days ago | 4 comments
A few weeks ago I became completely exasperated with my iron. The bottom plate had spray starch residue that wouldn't budge when I tried to clean it off and I finally chucked it into the trash with the intent of going to Target that day to pick up...
Caroline No
posted 10 months ago | 1 comment
Middle school, or junior high as it was known back then, was a bit of an anxious time for me. For one thing, 7th grade math scared the crap out of me. To be more precise, Mrs. Mead, the math teacher, terrified me even more than the elusive quotien...
11th Christmas
posted over 3 years ago, updated about 10 hours later | 0 comments
We always celebrated Christmas Eve at my aunt and uncles house with all of our extended family when I was a child. Oh, how I loved to be there! A Mantovani Christmas album played on the stereo as my Uncle greeted us at the door wearing his red car...
It's the Little Things
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
Have you stopped to think about really savoring those little pleasures that we're treated to throughout our lives? I really love nature and appreciate all of it's beauty, but this time I'm talking about more mundane things. For example, tonight I'...
Looking too hard for answers
posted over 3 years ago | 3 comments
I'm 55 years old now. Ever since I turned 50, I've thought often about what my legacy on this earth will turn out to be. Sometimes (when I have too much time on my hands and get introspective) I think about the odds that I would be born in the fir...
Under the Lilacs
posted over 3 years ago | 2 comments
At the perimeter of the back yard of my childhood home there were ten large lilac bushes all in a row. They grew to be over seven feet tall and in between prunings provided a safe, snug den for me at their base.
Like every child, there were times...
Like every child, there were times...
Treasure - Part 1
posted over 4 years ago | 1 comment
There are times, when something happens to temporarily turn my life upside down, that I need to take myself back. Back, back… to my thirteenth summer – to some of the sweetest memories I own. I pull them out of my memory and examine them, turning ...
Waiting
posted over 4 years ago | 4 comments
I was almost sixteen years old in the summer of 1968. But not quite. I had an uneasy truce in effect with my mother and we found it safest to eye each other cautiously and tread lightly in each others’ company.
Oh yes, my mother and I had “issues...
Oh yes, my mother and I had “issues...
