Sometimes I still cry. While we were cleaning out the ‘we don’t know where to put it so we’ll just put it in this extra room’ room that needs to become the ’sparish… more →
Stumbling Barefoot...ruthsippelpace wrote 1 day ago: Our Family History My parents were married in 1946. Between 1947 and 1956, they had 5 children. W … more →
Vicki wrote 1 week ago: “I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are rea … more →
tina louise wrote 2 weeks ago: Yesterday was the 14th anniversary of my mom’s death. It’s truly hard to believe it … more →
Vicki wrote 2 weeks ago: “Honey, what do you think I should do?” The beautiful blue eyes that I had looked to thousands of t … more →
Vicki wrote 4 weeks ago: Have you ever been angry with God? I’m talking about that really gritty, dirty, I am so pissed off … more →
Vicki wrote 1 month ago: October 25, 2009 5 years ago today… I have heard it said that the healing comes when you tell your s … more →
Vicki wrote 2 months ago: Four years ago when we were moving here I made a rash decision. You see that is easy to do when you … more →
mimrlith wrote 3 months ago: Has Your mother died? An anthology about the death of a mother seeks emotionally honest and compelli … more →
lovefoxglove wrote 3 months ago: wheelchair can’t stand smelly room greasy hair tissue paper love’s decay kisses soft ple … more →
Brenda Kula wrote 6 months ago: “It is the image in the mind that links us to our lost treasures; but it is the loss that shap … more →
beingmade wrote 7 months ago: Sometimes I still cry. While we were cleaning out the ‘we don’t know where to put it so … more →
Mia wrote 8 months ago: In the shadows of the showy Beaux Arts Cathedral, I rose from a worn kneeler and turned back to cont … more →
Mia wrote 8 months ago: My mother’s death has unmoored me. How can this be? It’s not precise to say we weren … more →
Mia wrote 8 months ago: The day my mother was packed off from hospital to care center found me repeating The Story again and … more →
Mia wrote 8 months ago: I rue that my mother spent most of the last month of her life in in a woefully small and dispiriting … more →
Mia wrote 8 months ago: We didn’t, of course, know how short her remaining time was to be. But it is hard to make peac … more →
Mia wrote 8 months ago: Given how quickly she went, I will always regret that my mother didn’t start out right away in … more →
Mia wrote 8 months ago: My mother arrived at the care center wearing a paper-thin hospital gown under the heap of warming bl … more →
Mia wrote 8 months ago: On New Year’s Eve, my mother took her last trip, bumping along a suburban freeway in a medi-va … more →