Archive for January, 2007



I am having a hard time here. I feel as if my sense of humor is a horse I have to get back on.
But. I have been thrown hard.
Still, I alternate between wanting to curl in a gray cave for a long, long time, like a very worn and weary bear, and going […]

It’s that time of year again.** Time to wonder why, in America, we developed a tradition of getting up before the crack of a freezing dawn and spying on groundhogs in order to find out how much longer we’re going to have to keep freezing our tushies off. Time to wonder why when, […]

Some Things About My Father

My father raised seven kids and never failed us. And that is a lot to say about anyone.

He left behind ten grandchildren and another on the way. My own daughter and my sister’s child probably won’t remember him.

But maybe somewhere they will.

He was married 50 years, and it was a […]