family
Well Rounded Life List
I wrote one three years ago. It said: Increasing my physical wellness spending time with my mom and my family becoming financially sound exploring my misfitness volunteering travel I can say that I’ve been doing these things. The most rewarding was spending time with my mom – I was blessed to be able to be…
Read MoreWhat I Know To Be True
Family matters most. My brother is just another version of me. We share a sense of humor. He’s got my back, I have his. He makes me nuts, I make him nuts. My nieces and nephews and the greats just light me up! Giving is more joyous than receiving. Buying gifts for the kids…
Read MoreThe Family Farm
When I grew up I played in the corn and the wild grass and under the biggest tree in the county I climbed many trees and walked the creek with my grandpa in search of a big fish I played around tombstones and pretended I was a preacher In the grass under a circle of…
Read MoreHappy Thanksgiving – Share This Reader
I’m a big fan of Webdancers blog and it turns out they are also big fans of Seth Godin. Seth has made a document available to all of us called the Thanksgiving Reader. Please read below the email Webdancers shared in their enewsletter this week. I couldn’t have written it better myself! (And yes, I’ll…
Read MoreWhat will be important in the end?
My mom died August 11. In the weeks before she passed, we knew it was coming and she wanted to be surrounded by those she loved. Her kids, grand kids, great grand kids – her brother, sister in law and sister – her nieces – close family friends – these were the people who brought…
Read MoreWhat really matters?
My mother was born in 1929 – when the stock market crashed, when food was more valuable than most other things, when life was hard. When Christmas came one year (she was little and can’t remember the year) all she got was this little bear. Her brother Paul got a small truck. That was it.…
Read MoreMerry Christmas
I received an early Christmas gift yesterday. I was going through a tool case my mom had, just a small blue one. In it were the cards she received when I was born. Many of my relatives wrote inside the cards and it made me smile. At the bottom of the pile was this picture,…
Read MoreSunday Update: Late
When you fall off a horse, the regional wisdom is to get right back on it and ride. Well, I fell off the horse these past two weeks. Actually, the horse bucked me right off and chased me around the field for a long time. Damn horse. We put my mom into a nursing home…
Read MoreVictorian Questionaire
Marcel Proust filled out an English language questionnaire given to him by the daughter of the President of France sometime in the 1880’s. It was part of the Victorian version of the personality test of today. You may have seen it on Inside the Actors Studio and in Vanity Fair. I just read about it…
Read MoreToday we grieve
Today we lay to rest my nephew Eric Leaman. I was blessed to know him for the last ten years as he was the fiance of my niece Sarah. Certainly at 35, he was too young to die. (The reasons why are still unknown, but it’s believed its tied to Kawasaki Disease he had as…
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