Bless Our Hearts

Well, it's 6:35 on New Year's Eve, 2007, as I write this. And I am celebrating. I'm not especially celebrating the end of one ye...

I have a friend who seems to be operating on a completely different time-frame than I am. It's as if he lives on another planet where ti...

Despite a million tourists (what are these people doing in my state?), this is a lovely place. Although the gulf is not lapping at our front...

Phew. Wow. It's over. Really. Not really. Because the melancholy madness of Christmas which always descends on me after the presents are...

And what have you done? Fed the hungry? Taken in the homeless? Given to the poor, cooled the brow of the ill, provided warmth to the cold a...

I went to see Lynn today. I knew it was going to be tough. Christmas- hell, she loved Christmas. She never had much money to buy presents bu...

Well. Here we are. Five days before Christmas and I am NOT ready. In fact, I feel sort of sick to my stomach. Speaking of sick, my youngest ...

I have gotten used to, although have not become comfortable with, the use of the songs of my youth being used in the marketing of products ...

It's fascinating, sometimes, looking for images to go with a post. Sometimes you find things you certainly didn't expect, and these ...

I am completely paralyzed with the prospect of all that I must do in the next week and because I haven't begun to do any of it (I tried,...

As irreverent as I am, I have a great fondness in my heart for this little lady right here and today's her feast day. In Mexico, right n...

Okay. I think time’s up. Time’s up for the current world leaders to try and do something about this mess. They’ve given all the Big Question...

I woke up in such a funk. Twenty-seven years ago. Bless his heart. I miss him still.

And on a lighter note... Last week two of my daughters and I went to the nursing home to see Lynn. We visited for awhile, sang her a few Ch...

We are all born starving for air, hungry and hurt and looking for the nipple. That is the truth. And we breathe that first breath and take t...

Since so very few of you wanted to share your favorite Christmas gift memories with me, (and it's not too late!) I've had to go out ...

When I wake up in the morning there is a period of time when I'm in despair. This is just the way it is. Doesn't matter how beautifu...

Just when you realize how really cute you are, you're not. This has been my experience, anyway. I never really thought of myself as an e...

Went to see that dear girl this afternoon. I wheeled her out of the building into what they call a patio, which is a chain-linked-fence-encl...

I wimped. We gathered and had a cup of tea, some cheese and apples. It was time to go see Lynn. I suddenly saw her at the nursing home, eith...