A quick update on book availability, and a couple of photos of our decked halls!
Continue readingAlmost on Bookshelves!
Making good on the promises (threats?) I’ve been making for three years, my book, Zen (and Rage) and the Art of a Never-Ending Home Renovation will be published soon!
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Smaller – My Mom’s transitions through her own (and my Dad’s) dementia
Continue readingMy Dad Doesn’t Recognize me Anymore
My Dad is dying. And he doesn’t know who I am anymore. How can I be okay with that?
Continue readingAre We There Yet?
What it’s like as I’m getting closer to a publication date!
Continue readingAfghanistan – Something I had to get off my Chest
“Cheating” on my WordPress blog a little bit, but this is way out of the normal realm of my subject matter, so a different venue seemed most appropriate.
I had to write this tonight so I would stop yelling at the TV. I hope my voice joins a rising chorus of people for whom integrity still matters.
Going Native
A story of budding love . . .
Continue readingLet’s Bee Serious!!
Say hello to my little friends
Who quietly keep this earth alive and, quite literally, humming.
A few shots of some members of the order Hymenoptera from around the property this morning. Most are getting pollen-drunk on our male English holly (yes— English holly have male and female plants and they need to be in proximity to make those beautiful red berries for Christmas decorations!)
The first shot is one of the mountain laurel we planted along the edge of the back woods last year.
Nature is my drug of choice!!
A Loss for Words
How my parents’ dementia is teaching me to grieve
Continue readingIrrational Fear
Why do I do this to myself? A little rant about fear.
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