Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from my work-in-progress — a novel about losing my mom and finding her again, leaving home and going back and about childhood. The parts like this, about my lovable swearing father, made me laugh when I wrote them and repeat them to my friends as long as they would […]
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Baby boy in NICU
Here’s an excerpt from my book, based on when our son Kendall was in NICU. (The first part of the story is here in a previous blog post.) Such a hard time and I’m sure many moms can relate. The best part was this though… They admitted the baby for seven days. They released Lainey […]
Gardening with kids
Best flower. Ever. In celebration of spring… here’s a little piece on trying to garden with children that I wrote back when the kids were smaller and drove me madder…. The only way to get any gardening done is to do so under the guise of a game. This is a fine line. Be careful […]
Crazy for eagles
Eagles have become quite a part of our household. Nelson loves them. It all started with the live eagle cam broadcast from Decorah, Iowa. Nelson’s teacher pulled up the live cam several times in class last year. The children got to watch three eagles born and fledged. Amazing. Free, no charge, priceless experience. However, it’s […]
Happy the Cat Goes Camping ~ a story
There’s a lot of things I like about this picture. A) It reminds me that spring will come again. Look at that green grass, I could eat it about now. B) The handle of the Nerf Gun sticking out of the backpack. Did he take that to school? Because that’s a one-year expulsion, dude, no […]