Who hits whom?
posted over 3 years ago, updated about 1 hour later | 1 comment
Life had turned ugly. He was drinking and she hated the drinking, the smell of him as he crawled into the bed late at night, when he got home from drinking with his buddies and his girlfriend. The children didn't see him except for dinner. He didn...
On the Island in the Sun
posted over 3 years ago, updated 1 day later | 3 comments
Once upon a time there was a summer on the island of Ocracoke in a primitive federal campground. I changed my life forever there.
On the Island in the Sun were two tents
forming an L
with a canopy slung between them.
In the shade from the canopy...
On the Island in the Sun were two tents
forming an L
with a canopy slung between them.
In the shade from the canopy...
Life on Eons
posted over 3 years ago, updated 4 minutes later | 2 comments
Jo’s brother died,
and sympathies go out.
Sandra’s son goes back to the job corps,
she gives a sigh of questionable relief.
John’s grandchildren go shopping at the mall
with his credit card.
Rebecca asks for help ending a relationship,
Sandra cr...
and sympathies go out.
Sandra’s son goes back to the job corps,
she gives a sigh of questionable relief.
John’s grandchildren go shopping at the mall
with his credit card.
Rebecca asks for help ending a relationship,
Sandra cr...
My True North
posted over 3 years ago, updated about 15 hours later | 3 comments
People amaze me. More people have been compassionate, caring, and kind to me than have ever hurt me or been rude and nasty. I love people. I love talking to people, listening to people, spending time with people, watching people and studying about...
Love Song to Time
posted over 3 years ago | 4 comments
Time is known to us casually as a child, and becomes more and more real as we age. We become more familiar with time, till we can see it, feel it, know it and finally accept it when we are old. Time catches us then, and in that time, takes us to t...
Feeling like a kid again with Kaia
posted over 3 years ago, updated 4 minutes later | 4 comments
Awake, I take a peek in the other bedroom. She is near consciousness, wiggling and sighing. I grind my beans .... sure that she will hear me, brew my coffee and sit down to drink the steaming mug. The day has dawned cloudy. It looks like rain. I'm...
Feeling like a kid again with Kaia
posted over 3 years ago | 2 comments
Awake, I take a peek in the other bedroom. She is near consciousness, wiggling and sighing. I grind my beans .... sure that she will hear me, brew my coffee and sit down to drink the steaming mug. The day has dawned cloudy. It looks like rain. I'm...
Margaret ,,, This is about my Mother
posted over 3 years ago, updated 1 minute later | 2 comments
Margaret comes from strong stock
Hardworking, no nonsense
Farmers and mill workers
Carolina Baptists
The world was at war
For the second time
Margaret was seventeen
And working in the dime store
When she met her Pretty Yankee Soldier
She ma...
Hardworking, no nonsense
Farmers and mill workers
Carolina Baptists
The world was at war
For the second time
Margaret was seventeen
And working in the dime store
When she met her Pretty Yankee Soldier
She ma...
How to have fun in the rain on the 4th
posted over 3 years ago, updated 11 minutes later | 0 comments
We were happy because we could walk to the big 4th of July celebration in the park. The parking situation was awful. Half the county must be coming for the fun. We (my youngest daughter, 4 year old granddaughter and I) met my older daughter's fami...
Tickles
posted over 3 years ago, updated 2 months later | 8 comments
It's morning again, and she is in the bedroom asleep. I wake early these days. It seems to be an age thing. So I drink my cup of morning ambition, amble over to the computer to see what the folks on Eons have had to say since I last signed on late...
