Years That Answer

It has been a busy month for us. Well, busy by our lazy and reclusive retirement standards.  We've had two short term visitors this mont...

My mother would have disapproved of Trump, Putin and the mean spirited hijinks of the current GOP. She had no respect for bullies, narcissis...

Living conditions were not hard for my mother's family during the Great Depression. The family was large, but Grandpa's job as a rai...

The whole process was surreal. She was in a nursing home and had a stroke. We didn't want her to be alone, so I offered to sleep in a ho...

When I wrote this (before the holiday), my granddaughter E was in the air making her way home for Thanksgiving.  It was the first time she f...

Certain of my mother's grandparents came from Germany. Mom grew up in a home where German was still spoken. In later years, when Mom was...

I was never beautiful, although I think there were times in my life when I was reasonably attractive. If not attractive because of beauty, t...

It feels like summer now to this northern transplant, but it isn't. Summer is yet to come. Summer is a whole other kettle of fish in Ce...

This is my second Mother’s Day without my Mom.  She had her weaknesses, as we all do; but now I only remember her strength. She was...

My mother saw her own mother’s ghost. I think that is why Mom was reluctant to speak of her mother. Grandma (Veronica from my post ...

When I was young we did not put our tree up until 3 days before Christmas. My parents were quite strict about that. My mother said ...

The Baby Sister Chronicles: Part II 😎 My mother's Parkinson's Disease continued to progress. A couple years after the delir...

I read ( click here ) about a medical condition called delirium that can result when older people have surgery. It mimics dementia, but is u...

I am not the best housekeeper in the world. I got the slob gene from my mother , although I am not really in the same league as her. She wa...

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...

A year ago this week I left Central Florida to go to Northern Indiana to help my siblings manage my mother's death. I spent a week li...