Mothering in Retrospect

It’s interesting being the mother of older children. My roll has changed from one who made things ok, made things happen, knew (supposedly) all the answers, and gave up my nights, my comfort ( wet sandy snuggles at the beach for instance and bouquets of flowers I was allergic to), my preferences, my beauty( [...]

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Now that it’s spring I am looking forward to some day like this one when I am able to get out there on the lake and catch a nice mess of fish. Memories of fishing with my Daddy and my hubby and my kids are some of my best, happiest memories!

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 [...]

I HAVE An Irony

“I HAVE A VOICE” was the first thing that made me laugh today.
  It is proclaimed from my daughter’s teenage wall. Song hung it up on her return from a rally where she also collected laryngitis. Irony often makes me smile.
  Another one: I found myself feeling sorry for firegal’s orphaned plants she left bundled [...]

anticipation

Apple pie,an old farmer his obese wife , cluttered counters,birds imagined and their imaginary trills, spring with snow still on the ground and undoubtedly the ground is frozen under foot, apple crisp with oatmeal in it, oatmeal with apples in it, and Gladys Alyward triumphantly trudging into the city with 100 orphans tattered,bandaged feet but [...]

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 [...]