I’ve lost count of the number of days we’ve been staying home: sequestered and self-quarantined. The days have begun to run together into, at least, three weeks. 21 days. We are well. Regardless of sniffles and coughing: I have allergies and “reactive airway disease”. I refused to finish the 5 breathing drug tests my pulmonologist insisted on (the first one…
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A few months ago, the large squares on our calendar were filling up quickly. There was a special trip planned with our youngest son and his family to visit Disney World during the children’s Spring break. We had rented a house with a swimming pool and had already purchased plane tickets. We were looking forward to our Spring trip but…
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I see the date on my last post, and I can’t believe that much time has passed! There were Thanksgiving and Christmas and so many other days that I could have and should have written about! So symbolic of life that time does literally fly by. So one of my goals, intentions, desires, plans, resolutions – I need to do…
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I remember the beginning. Fifty-three years ago when we were all young. Life lay stretched out ahead of us. Children in our future…grandchildren beyond that. A path we were laying out in neat little stones leading to what we thought would be our future. Even then, time seemed like it would go on forever. I know you’ve said it: “if…
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I saw an advertisement in our local Facebook Marketplace the other day for a red bench. Amish made, sturdy, in excellent condition and only three twenty dollar bills. The memories started flooding in. I’ll have a birthday soon and my memory isn’t always that reliable but I just knew that, somewhere in time, we’d had a red bench. I…
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