Everyone runs into days from hell.  I have not written in the past two weeks.  Everything went wrong, including my not writing.  Our daughter was t-boned and though not hurt, the car was totaled.  She lives with her fiance in Calgary, Alberta Canada.  We live in the Detroit Metro area. Our son had to find… Continue reading Two Weeks

Sometimes I would take the kids on a walk to a nearby park.  There were lovely bike paths down tree lined avenues.  I was pushing two in a stroller, and the other two ran ahead of me.  The older kids found a nestling robin.  It had baby feathers on it, but could not fly.  I… Continue reading Robin Rescue

Now that my husband is retired, we have thermostat wars.  The thermostat is in the narrow hallway leading to the bathroom and bedrooms.  We are watchful when either of us is in that hallway.  He turns it up, so it went to 79 degrees yesterday.  I turned it down and frost formed on the inside… Continue reading Thermostat Wars

We lived in Holland, Michigan for eleven years.  Tulip time is a big event there.  We have four kids, and they were little.  On the day when we all dress up for the scrubbing of the streets parade I had myself to dress, my husband, too.  Then, I had to wash, dry, iron, starch, and… Continue reading Golf Clubbed

I do my hair, such as it is, whenever we are going somewhere.  I take a shower and shampoo it, condition it, comb it out, and dry it.  Then I use an iron to make my straight as a string hair straighter. My husband has wash and dry hair.  Once in the car on our… Continue reading Hair Undone

My husband and I were at an outdoor barbecue to celebrate the end of the school year.  My husband’s phone rang.  It was a clerk at the emergency room asking for me.  My mother was in emergency, up north.  It was a five hour drive! We hurried home, and it was ten p.m.  I asked… Continue reading Emergency Room

My mother’s mother, my grandma, was a big, wonderful woman.  My mom and I went to her house for spring cleaning.  It was a big house with lots of nooks and crannies for me to explore.  It had a solarium on the first floor, a cellar, a sewing room and balcony upstairs, and another whole… Continue reading Lunch Time

My mother had a 1957 white Ford Galaxy, the same car that was pulled out of the muck in “Psycho.”  She slipped on my father’s waders that he used for unsuccessful trout fishing in a nearby river. It was summer, so I was in the neighborhood at the time.  My mom had a big bucket… Continue reading Car Washing

My mother was obsessed with her lawn.  Autumn was a challenge that was bigger than her.  She had all her trees cut down.  But, her neighbors had lots and lots of trees and lots and lots of leaves.  She raked and raked piles of colorful leaves.  It is not that the wind was blowing, it… Continue reading Out on a Limb

My mother was an elementary school secretary.  I was teaching my first year of kindergarten.  She gave me a fish in a gold fish bowl.  The fish looked like a blue gill…a pan fish.  But, this fish’s name was Oscar.  I thought that was a cute name, not realizing it is the type of fish… Continue reading One Fish