Easter 2023 highlights
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Jim and I enjoyed our Easter holiday to the fullest. We began the day with breakfast then Easter church service and ended with …
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March gladness
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Ordinary moments — dare I say, mundane moments — marked March 2023 for me. Ordinary moments for which I’m all the more grateful and glad to have had in light of this month’s heartbreak and loss for so many in the west, in the south, and, especially, in Nashville.
Moments like these:
Read MorePic of the week: Faces I miss
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I haven’t seen my Arizona-living grandsons —Declan (8), Camden (11), and Brayden (14) — since last July …
Read MorePic of the week: Mommy’s here!
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We all have great fun when Robert and Benjamin spend the day at Gramma’s house.
Read MoreHome Happenings: October 2022
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Looking back, October marks the most mellow month of the 2022 for me. At least in terms of getting out and about. Our typically wild and crazy Callie had ACL surgery — technically CCL in dogs — near the end of September, which meant she had to lay low and go slow, rendering us pretty much homebound for most of October.
Read MoreGood things and growing boys
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Good things have been going on for me, I must say. The top good thing of late has been my recent trip to see my desert-dwelling grandsons.
Read MoreGrandma's heroes: Where the boys are
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Kids across the country—and their parents and teachers, too—are celebrating the end of the most challenging school year ever. From pre-K to college age, students have survived a school experience not a single adult alive has ever had to muddle their way through, thanks to Covid.
Sure, parents and teachers had it rough (often beyond rough) making the schooling work somehow, some way. Yet no one over the age of 30 can fully comprehend how it felt and what it meant—and continues to mean—being a kid of any age enduring the wacked out way the 2020-2021 school year went.
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