On the first day of a recent Christmas past, my truelove gave to me… low frequency therapeutic equipment. The product, also called the HBL-502, was “similar
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About This Blog
“Welcome! The posts and essays you’ll find here cover the past several years of my travels as a writer, reader, walker, mother, wanna-be gardner, and lover
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Old Yeller and The Repo Man: Thanksgiving 1986
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnhojq63-Bs The movie is Old Yeller and it plays out on the television in the corner of the hospital room. My son, then eleven, watches from
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One Thing
“He never knew when it was coming.” I learned last week that there is one thing about me my husband would change if he could. Not
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Life Happens
“It was amazing how you could get so far from where you’d planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.” (Sarah Dessen,
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Limoncello Lessons…Please!
Okay, foodies and mixology mavens. I need your help. I made my first ever batch of limoncello and it looks like this: In case it isn’t obvious
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A Moment of Silence
On Monday, May 26th, the clock will strike 3 p.m. one time zone at a time. Everywhere across the U.S. people will fall silent, together or
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Monday Letters
It’s five o’clock on Monday morning and my mother sits in bed, knees up, a pad against her thighs, her second cup of coffee steaming within
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How to Love a Loquat
It’s spring here in San Diego. The sky is blue, the temperatures are nudging eighty degrees, and I am working hard to come up with all
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About A Boy
Today, April 20, is about Easter. It is also about a boy. The boy in this picture came into my life on April 20, 1975. He
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