The last two months have been a blur for my husband and I. We have had the task of emptying his childhood home. His parents, both in their 90’s, moved to a retirement facility earlier this year, albeit with much resistance. For eight months the house remained empty and intact. Even though working gradually through…
Continue Reading about Closing the Door: Emptying the Family Home After Five Decades →
In the last few months I’ve been on a bit of a journey with myself. Hmm, I do hate using the word journey as it makes me feel like I’m on some bad reality tv show. It has been a step by step process, a progression of sorts. Maybe it is best described as a…
Continue Reading about How Self Portraits Revealed The Inner Me →
Happy New Year. I hope you are well. Recently, I opened up my blog and I was surprised to see that my last post was a year and a half ago! Somehow blogging just got put to the side. If I did any writing it was shorter bursts on an Instagram post, but I have…
Continue Reading about Here’s to a Kinder, gentler, Happy New Year. →
Hello friends. It’s been a while. I know I’ve always had a hard time consistently keeping up with writing but, you know, a pandemic and all really slowed my writing speed down to a screeching halt. As I sit here writing these words, I realize just what a strange and difficult year we leave behind…
These past few weeks I’ve been sorting through closets and boxes and old bedrooms. I’ve said at times I feel like I’m going through an old estate. Piles of photos that didn’t make it into the photo albums. Envelopes of negatives, old birthday cards and broken picture frames. I often say I’m not sentimental.
