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'...
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...
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...
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...
Earlier Today, Text Messages with the Husband ROBERT: All will be well. See with the Spirit. ME: Made it to 7-11 to get Gatorades, and Bridgy left shoes at home. ROBERT: Let’s just write the screenplay. Can’t make this stuff up. ME: That isn’t even the half. Sullivan...
I believe in Divine appointments, and that's exactly what Jessica Allossery's My Little Girl felt like tonight when I heard the song for the first time. I had just picked Bridgy up from gymnastics, and she was so tired from a hard workout. I turned the radio to...
"...Fervently love one another from the heart, for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable..." 1 Peter 1:23 "You think everything is gonna be OK, Son," I asked. "Yes, Mommy," he replied. "Everything is gonna be OK. Even if things...
It hurt badly to go through my mom's things. It took my siblings and I a few hours just to go through her vintage brooches. She loved pretty pins, and we bought her many over the years. The ones we loved best were the ones we recalled her wearing during our...
Ah, yes, Jennifer and Amy. Quintessential Gen X names. Here's their mother decked out in sky blue on a 1960s Murray bicycle. Isn't it awesome that she outfitted it with not just one, but two, child seats? Mother's Day is Sunday, May 14. Do you have any special...
A family went out to a restaurant for dinner. When the waitress arrived, the parent gave their orders. Immediately, the five-year-old daughter piped up with her own: ‘I’ll have a hot dog, french fries, and a Coke.’ ‘Oh no you won’t, interjected the dad and turning to...
Yesterday afternoon, Jakey the budgie died. When we found him, his companion Louie was distraught. He chirped and bounced on top of him. Jumped along the perches. Clung to the sides of the cage. Searched in every corner for his friend. And, for the first time ever, he...
Long after I'm gone, this old house on 20th Street will still be standing. We moved here right after I got pregnant with my son Sullivan who is nine now. Dear Lord, where does the time go? When we first moved in everything had a fresh coat of paint and the hardwood...