. . . go back and read the posts I did all through and following Hurricane Katrina. You can find them in my archives to the right by reading the posts in August 2005 (Aug. 28 through the end of the month - the 31st) and September 2005 (from the beginning through at least the [...]
You can't
control the length of your life, but you can control its width and depth.
You can't control the contour of your face, but you can control its
expression. You can't control the weather, but you can control the
atmosphere of your mind. Why worry about things you can't control when you
can [...]
I don't have a blog post to go with that title. Those alliterative words just popped into my head and I thought they made a good blog post title.Actually, I was thinking of a blog post to write on that subject, but won't. Can't, really, for a lot of reasons. . .. Maybe I should [...]
She moves softly around me as I sleep, shadows fleeting across my vision. It brings back memories of my childhood when her caress was all that kept me going.
Her gentle, yet strong hand guiding me in all that was right and good.
She is my mother.
Her hands today [...]
Whew! What a trip. The best (and only) good news about my trip to Abilene Thursday was that I eventually arrived in one piece and that my luggage made it, as well. But it was a long, harrowing trip in which I had delay after delay of flights, a canceled flight, overbooked "replacement" flight, excessive weight causing [...]
I absolutely write some of the most brilliant blog posts in my head in between actually sitting down here to write. But then when I do finally really sit down here to write, they have suddenly all disappeared from my brain.Why is that?Just yesterday afternoon I was thinking of one and started to sit down [...]
My kids like to talk with me. Mark called me last night just to talk. I like to talk with them, too, so we're even. They are delightful people and we have a great time talking with one another and visiting, when we get the chance. I really enjoy talking with my mom, too, and [...]
Do y'all realize that we have been living in limbo now for a year and a half!?!Seventeen and 1/2 months, to be exact. I would - could - tell you the days, hours and minutes, but I won't stop to add them all up. I know them by heart in my own heart, for sure.It [...]
Tom's funny.How many of you go home for lunch every day or any time? Anybody out there?Tom comes home for lunch every day. He was able to begin doing so when we moved up to Picayune last spring into the apartment to start building our house. Before we moved out here two weeks ago he [...]
We have fireflies and hummingbirds.The woods at night are filled with tiny flickers of light that are the fireflies. Tom stands and leans out over the railing of the high back deck above the woods and watches them before he comes to bed. Night lights of the best kind.By day, hummingbirds come to gather sweet [...]