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I’ve been struggling with gratitude lately. For years I’ve wanted to “make music.” Ya know, garage band style, or hell, even a barbershop quartet. I always wanted it. But never enough. I tried to get things going with other people. I never really found my target audience I suppose. Recently, I decided to learn toContinue reading “She was an organ donor.”

We’re on the other side.  That was rough. Saturday started normal enough. It was a slow morning. I even took a nap before preparing to reprise my role as Lola, the charismatic Jazz singer turned victim for the local library’s murder mystery. Managed to raise just over $600 each for the library and theater troupeContinue reading “I think we made it…”

Around 1:00 this afternoon my husband asked me if I had any big ideas for dinner. I loathe the question, and he knows it. Why do we have to eat every day?? But we agreed sloppy joes would be an easy feat. I worked a little later than usual, so dinner time crept up quickly.Continue reading “Childhood is Awesome!”

My family lives in a smaller 3 bedroom house. When everything shut down at the beginning of the COVID epidemic, we squished the boys into a shared bedroom so that my husband and I could share an office to work from home. The boys are getting bigger and they are starting to need more space.Continue reading “The Overgrown Picklesicle is Still Asleep”

I’ve been browbeat, and I feel lost. Once endeared as a gift, writing often feels burdensome now. I’m told over and over that the words I use are correct, yet the format is foreign. You write backwards. The words echo through my empty mind each time I grasp for words to add to the page.Continue reading “What’s on the menu…”