It was the morning after my mother died that I saw the bear. It was early and I was lying in bed looking out of my second story bedroom window. I often look out of the window in the mornings to start the day while also hoping to get a glimpse of wildlife starting […]
A printed card means nothing except that you are too lazy to write to the woman who has done more for you than anyone in the world. And candy! You take a box to Mother—and then eat most of it yourself. A pretty sentiment. —Anna Jarvis source: The Free Dictionary I like to […]
On May 8, 2010, I published a blog post titled “10 Ideas for an Outdoorsy Mother’s Day”. The post received some feedback, but the Squidoo Lens I made on the topic has done pitifully – at least in the internet traffic department. I was hoping to inspire moms to get active and do something other […]
1. Honesty is the best policy – Of course, it is. “Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” 2. The truth hurts – Whether we are the giver or receiver of the truth, it can be unpleasant. 3. It’s nice to be different – Following the […]
Mother’s Day will be here soon and I want to tell you a story about my mom, but before I tell the story, here’s a little introduction. You’ve gotten to know her in articles titled Know Your Mother, Nine Great Tips on How to Have a King Cake Party, and most recently in my post […]
Don’t laugh. I know it looks like I have a flying saucer (I just can’t seem to get away from that alien theme) on my head or some such contraption. Perhaps my husband David thinks it looks more like the decoration that Lady Capulet wore to the ball where Romeo meets Juliet. Oh never […]
Thirty-six years ago, two days before my eighteenth birthday, I gave birth to my firstborn son. He’s pushing forty but as the saying goes he’s still my little boy. Ten months earlier David and I had married. The length of time is pertinent to the story as I’ve been asked if I had to get […]
As Mother’s Day approaches, I am reminded of how little some children seem to know about the person behind the persona. This thought first occurred to me when I moved to Montana and began, on occasion, to read the death notices. They are so unlike the monotonous obituaries I had become accustomed to reading when […]
It was May 5, 2000; another one of those doomsday dates when the planets were due to align and produce cataclysmic destruction that would end the world. Four years had passed since my husband, Grandpa Davey, had taken me on an adventure to discover the West. That had been my first trip west and I […]
Like 175 million other people worldwide, I recently joined the social networking website, Facebook. Besides luring my own friends, I pestered relatives, and my grown-kids high school friends to join me in snooping on one another. It’s was a hoot, and for the first couple of weeks, I was hooked. After mentioning in my status bar that […]
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