50, mom of a teen, wife of a chief....in search of me
It’s been an odd day and I’m sensing a theme. Mental note: check to see what significance buzzards have with spirits. Let me explain. I was riding early this morning along a local highway, There is a house on that road, just off the route to Polo, with a nasty history, It’s a rental now. […]
“Instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that ‘The Nazi slogan for destroying us … was “Divide and Conquer.” Our American answer is “In Union there is Strength.”’ We must summon that unity to surmount this crisis—confident that we are better than our politics.” – 2020
I remember when the word ‘pandemic’ was something you only heard online, on television or in the theatres. It was the territory of writers and filmmakers and, lately, brings to mind things like zombies or wandering hordes of scavengers.I remember when we didn’t have to wonder when/if our neighbors or our town will turn from […]
I remember when the word ‘pandemic’ was something you only heard online, on television or in the theatres.I remember when we didn’t have to wonder when/if our neighbors or our town will turn from ‘we’re in this together’ to ‘you have something I want or need more than you.’What will the trigger be to turn […]
The Door Opens “Happy Birthday Mama,” she said, going down on her haunches and onto one knee to pull a stray weed near the headstone. Anna Sharp adopted a conversational tone and made small talk among the graves. From her beginning days, going cemetery to cemetery with her geneaologist mom, she figured the folks buried […]
When you have a grand house, but not a grand income, it can come down around you for years without you realizing how bad it’s getting – a body on a bad diet. Anna glared as she thought about the whiskey decanter in the globe bar in the corner of the parlor, and viciously reminded […]
It’s all about perspective. When we’re young we know two things, black/white, right/wrong, good/bad. It as we grow up that we gather our experience points that we begin to see the striations, the gradients, the shades of grey and if we aren’t careful we develop the tunnel vision of the righteous that stops us from […]
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