To cull: to choose, select, or pick. Anything picked out and put aside. Words mean more than things. When my parents died, my siblings shared all their belongings. I only wanted their words. Things mean little to me, but give me letters, articles saved, and stories told. There is a kind of power in […]
Today a woman somewhere is laughing, weeping, grieving, or celebrating. Someone is giving birth; someone is losing a loved one to death. Relationships are forming, others are ending. For some, this will be an ordinary day filled with many of the same activities as yesterday. For others, something unexpected will suddenly make this day unforgettable, one that they may tell their children and grandchildren about in the future. In the same way that we are curious about how our grandmothers lived, future generations will be interested in learning about what an ordinary day was like in our lives.
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One Woman's Day
April 19 – My Mother’s Kitchen
In the five years I’ve lived in a senior living facility, I’ve forgotten how to cook. Not surprising since meals are provided, but sad because I loved cooking. Memories of food, its smells, tastes, texture, begin in my mother’s kitchen, a room as spacious as the bedrooms in our house on Summit View. The floor […]
April 12 – The Last Time
The last time I saw my Dad, he was preparing to visit his brother Tom. Why today, I wonder, when I’ve driven all the way from Toronto just to see him! We’re all here, my siblings and I, laughing and joking as always, usually at each other’s expense, loving each other roughly, as is our […]
April 5 – Writing Matters
Many of us are lucky to have people around us who understand or at least support our writing habits and dreams. Even with the best support, I sometimes feel like my writing is inconsequential in the face of so many pressing world problems. Do you ever feel like your writing doesn’t matter? Do ever think […]
April 2 – Sarah and Wally Go to Space Camp
“Let’s go to Space Camp,” Wally said. Wally Funk was my flight instructor. I met her at Women in Aviation (WAI) in early March 1991. We were both speaking at the conference. “You should get Wally to teach you to fly,” said my friend and mentor Joan Hrubec. Joan, a walking encyclopedia on the subject […]
March 29 – When Life Hands You . . .
My last post on my personal blog was about grand-parenting in a pandemic and I thought I was ready. We had the masks, we had set the protocols with the parents to be, and were isolating hard so we could be in our new grandson’s bubble. We even had COVID tests when our daughter went […]
