Transitions
I am so grateful for the people in my life who ask about Mom. Many of them know Mom personally, but some know her...
Cat naps
I love to cat-nap.
I’m an okay sleeper during the night, but I am a great napper during the day. Mom is doing a...
Lydia
Lydia is my niece. She is a sophomore at Mary Hardin-Baylor in Texas. She doesn’t travel to the southeast as much as we’d like...
Clara, Laverne, and Jean
“This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.” Clara says the verse and sings the...
Parenting
I’ve always been aware of parenting skills or lack of them. Even as a teenager, I watched how other kids were treated by their...
Layers
I’m in the middle of a remodeling project at Mom and Dad’s, turning the formal living room into a music studio. The part that...
Retreat
Caregiving is exhausting. It doesn’t matter if you are caring for a child or an adult, the process of attending someone else’s needs is...
Soul mate
The title of a recent article in Time magazine caught my eye. The Viewpoint article was called, “Searching for a soul mate is futile....
Rearranging
As I have mentioned before, Mom was a homemaker. Her job was caring for her family and making sure we were all fed and...
Mondays with Mom: Cranky
Do you ever feel sour or cranky? You are not exactly mad at the world; you’re just grumpy enough not to want to deal...
Mondays with Mom: Visits
For many years Mom used to visit shut-ins and those friends who lived in the nursing homes. When I was a teenager, she would...
Bedtime
When I was in middle school, my bedtime was 9:30 on school nights. I often petitioned to stay up late, but it was denied....