Pain and Poetry on a Drizzly Day

“I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me and what can be the use of him is more than I can see”,Robert Louis Stevenson
  The day began with awareness of the feeling of broken glass embedded in between my shoulder blades. I managed to throw my back out this past week [...]

One Hand for Sorrow Another for Joy

 
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 It’s still spring!! I marvel at that because of our late snowstorms which made me wonder if I was in “The Long Winter”. I’ve often read Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Long Winter” but had no burning desire to experience it. I have to admit the first late flurry of snow after I came home from a [...]

Ask Mom

“Did you listen this time? You are so annoying…”
  “It must be so scary to be pregnant with triplets.” (Heard by Mom as question. Please tell me about birth and pregnancy.)
  Well it can be. I wondered every time if I was pregnant with twins. I watched four friends carry and give birth to twins [...]

spring?

  I hear a faint tick tick tick tick tick tick. No it isn’t my watch. It is the steady drip I discovered today from snow melting off the roof and dripping in through a missing shingle, onto my hutch and then down the back onto the kitchen floor!
  This! in the beginning of April [...]

Hello world!

Welcome to Wouldn’tchaknow it!
  The sun is shining and I am starting anew with this my old column from my newpapering days!
  I’ve been considering it for a year or more and today with #6 and #5 having danced out the door excitedly to go retreating and rallying with several thousand who like them like [...]