I don’t remember the day my mother left my father and siblings and the sea-green stucco house on Sigman Street. I don’t remember the fight that drove her to leave. There were so many fights every day, all day long. I don’t remember arriving at my grandparents’ trailer in Downey, a city in Southeast […]
People With Flowers | Memorial Day Post
People with flowers are always going somewhere To a church, to a wedding, to a graveyard. Home, to try to make their empty lives as full as blossoms. I’m like people with flowers because they are trying Because they haven’t given up… —Rod McCuen, 1933-2015 Pictures of mourners are popular on Etsy and eBay. Collectors […]
Love in the Time of Corona
There are days we live as if death were nowhere in the background; from joy to joy to joy, from wing to wing, from blossom to blossom to impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom. –From Blossoms by Li Young Lee Love in the Time of Corona The happiest days of my entire life have been […]
The Silent Gen Mamas of First-Wave Gen-Xers (Pictures)
Happy Mother’s Day, Generation X. I put together this rare gallery of Silent Gen mothers on Easter and Mother’s Day, 1967 and 1968. All of the pictures feature first-wave Generation Xers born between 1961 and 1968. I hope you enjoy these pictures as much as I do! Many of the pictures also feature our older […]
Bridgy Twirls in the Stockyards City Christmas Parade
It was a joy-filled morning as my daughter Bridgette marched in the Stockyards City Cowboy Christmas Parade in Oklahoma City. It was her first parade. Since she is so young, we all escorted her including her super awesome brother Sullivan who rode his hover-board and carried the BRIDGY TWIRLS sign. After the parade, we popped […]
Online Advent Retreat + A Miracle!
Dear Friends, The most amazing thing happened to me on November 28. At the ripe old age of 51, I became a grandmother. My firstborn daughter Juliette gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Willow Martin Wareham was named for my late mother, Barbara Martin Elliott. Willow is a member of the Homeland Generation, Generation […]
This is the Homeland Generation on Halloween
How awesome is it that my son wanted to be Uncle Sam for Halloween? His choice surprised me and made me proud, even if he looks more like his nephew, Yankee Doodle Dandy. 😂 At 13, he was welcomed by all the houses in our neighborhood as he trick-or-treated with his sister. There was pure joy […]
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