Category Archives: words
A Gift that Meets Our Need Is The Very Best
“Oh. It’s only clothes. “I had an idea when I was younger that all Christmas presents should be something you don’t need. I think others helped me in forming this idea. Gradually my idea of the perfect present has … Continue reading
Chutney is Life?
Watching all the turmoil around me, sometimes my attitude seems to be a bit fluffy. Maybe some of that is on purpose. I try to maintain a certain amount of denial so that the seriousness of it all doesn’t … Continue reading
Summer Calls and Kids Help It
Summer is at midpoint and I notice myself and people around me alternating between a panic and plodding moes. We like a collective ant colony movealong the path of seasonal tasks and pleasure. Produce and blossoms come in waves … Continue reading
Guilty till Proven Innocent Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt
In the life of a young couple I know the traditional idea of American law has been turned on it’s head. Not innocent until proven guilty beyond a shadow of doubt but the reverse has been the treatment they … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
