It’s a Hard Knock Life for Kids, Books & Reviews
Little Orphan Annie knew all about what it’s like as a child to live a “hard knock” life, and yet …
Category Archives: Memoir
55 Years and Still Celebrating
Years ago I wrote a series of posts called Memoir of a Marriage in Poetry, exploring married love in all …
Growing Younger, Day by Day, a Gift
I just celebrated another birthday and thought I’d share with you again something I wrote a few years ago. For …
The Primordial Pleasure of Swimming
Now that the weather has warmed and heated our pool, Dale and I go swimming every afternoon. It’s not just …
Summer Sea Saga, A Dream Comes True
With summer blooming all around me and needing time to enjoy it, I thought I’d repost here some summertime favorites. …
Birthing & Rebirthing, A Constant Becoming
When my granddaughter was born my heart fell apart and I became a new thing. We’re astounded again and again …
A Deer Screams — Beauty & Brutality at Home and the Hills of Vietnam
The most horrifying sound I’ve ever heard came one night soon after we moved here. A scream of pure terror …
Memoir of a Marriage, Part V – Lasting Love
They say opposites attract. That was true when my husband and I first met. I found in him everything I …
Memoir of a Marriage, Part IV – Love Lost & Love Renewed
Not long after I decided to leave my husband I met someone new. I was working part-time at a book …
Memoir of a Marriage, Part III – Disappointed Love
When I first fell in love, it was a hot thing—urgent, possessive, almost feverish at times. I truly saw love …
