Years That Answer

A million years ago I worked with Nancy. Old enough to be my mother, I was her supervisor. She was the first person I ever supervised.  A ge...

I recently learned two of my father's first cousins died. We weren't "close." However, we shared an interest in family his...

The first day of high school in my senior year (September 1968), I was standing in a crowded hallway during class changes. It was my turn to...

The last Grandma story (for now): Grandma was a fundamentalist Protestant and a Pentecostal charismatic who talked in tongues when the spi...

--This treasure is a letter from my Tennessee grandmother (1905-2000) to my daughter, written in February 1981, for the occasion of...

Death is relentless. Last week a cousin died at 66 from cancer. This week my son-in-law's stepfather died in his sleep. He was 76 and ve...

Have you ever had something happen you simply could not explain? The incident that comes to mind for me is the Case of My Magic Earring . ...

I went with my daughter to Orlando the other day. We saw the makeshift mementos left after a memorial honoring the people who died in the P...

M y shingles are almost gone .  However, when it rains it pours. Buddy, our c at, died the other day . Although he had been really, really...

The month of June ushers in the heat, the humidity, the rains, and hurricane season. It has been very dry for a long, long time, so in some ...

My last post, about losing our gardenia, made me think about loss again. It is an interesting concept, loss.  I am going to chew on this fo...

The other day our once beautiful gardenia succumbed to disease. We have such a hard time growing things in Central Florida . It...