Today is the first day since May 6 I have been at home with some “down time.” Here’s what the…
I’ve begun again the tradition of reading Psalms and praying the Prayer for the Departed for my mother, which I…
I’ve been blogging about my mother—and my long-distance caregiving for her as her Alzheimer’s advanced—since 2007. Today I’m thankful to…
My mother, Effie Johnson, has been in the hospital for just over a week now, and today she’s being transferred…
Paris was wonderful! So busy there was no time for blogging. But while we were there my 88-year-old mother was…
This is day 3 of our visit to Paris, the “City of Lights.” I’m learning so much—didn’t know that Paris…
We’re off to Paris this morning! What a way to end Bright Week! (We celebrated Pascha/Easter this past Sunday, May…
I’m still working on my essay for the “Joy” essay contest for the Creative Nonfiction Journal, and I need to…
A friend sent me a link to an incredible article in the New York Times: Fraying at the Edges: Her…
In her essay, “Good Friday,” in God For Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Lent and Easter, Kathleen Norris says: Death…