Category Archives: Celebrating
PIZZA PARTY
There are a few pleasures in life that I’ve lived without for…quite some time. Last night, I decided one of those things I could not live without any longer. Pizza. I had to use both my hands to count how many years it’s been since I’ve enjoyed even one bite of this heaven-sent food: SIX. [...]
ENOUGH
R-girl and I had a special lunch out with some sweet girlfriends today. It wasn’t just any old lunch. This one was a couple moms and a couple daughters taking a moment to celebrate who we are, and who we are becoming. I had a message that I hope R-girl can carry deep inside her as [...]
YOU GO, GIRLS
Over the past two weeks, I have attended five birthday parties for five different beautiful women, each of whom I am lucky to have in my life. I didn’t make this card until one of the last parties but, honestly, I could have given it to more than one of these amazing ladies. Because each [...]
TWENTY-TWELVE
Ready or not, it has arrived. And so have we! I’m not sure how I feel about that, exactly. Am I allowed to say that? On New Year’s Day, of all things? It just that, if there’s one thing I know for sure, it’s that not very many of my years have ended the way [...]
[FROM THE ARCHIVES] AFTERTHOUGHTS
Thought this one was worth repeating… Merry day-after to you. __ Twas the night after Christmas and all through the house I noticed a hint —just a slip— of a slouch. A few times I saw shoulders sag just a bit. Or a smile would come but just wouldn’t quite fit. Conversations would start but [...]
MERRY MERRY
It might be almost over for this year, but I’ve savored every moment. Like listening to Pa read the Christmas story while we each place the appropriate characters into the manger scene one by one as he mentions them… and soaking up lots and lots of Grandma love… and wearing the Santa hat when we [...]
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LIFE AGAIN