Note: all four of my grandparents are very much alive and in their eighties, as is one of my husband’s grandmothers. We also are at the age where friends have babies. And again, my father-in-law is very close to not making it to retirement in three years; his health is that bad,...
It only ended up being a twenty-five-mile round trip, but because we had taken so many back roads, it still took almost the same amount of time as the forty-mile trip would have, and certainly a h*** of a lot longer than a three-mile trip!
A few years ago, my parents decided to visit my uncle (my dad’s brother) and his family, whom we hadn’t seen in almost a decade, in Berlin for New Year’s. Of course, as it was meant as a family vacation, that meant my sister (eighteen at the time) and I (a twenty-year-...
Children, Creative Solutions, Cute, Funny Kids, Oklahoma, Pets & Animals, Students, Teachers, USA, Wordplay, Zoo | Learning | December 3, 2024 One day, I was at the zoo, and a first-grade class was there on a field trip. I was at the leopard exhibit, and there were three little...
59. “The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize.”—Clairee Belcher,Steel Magnolias 60. “I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.”—Phyllis Diller ...
Four hundred years ago, Jake and I did two back-to-back rounds of Pandemic IVF… and I have been pregnant ever since. I am neither a woman who hates pregnancy nor one who reveres it. After our infertility struggles, I tried my best to enjoy it with the girls. I was so fortunate to...
He returned after twenty minutes of trying to climb over to see if we could carve a path. As far as he could see the forest was a twisted heap of wood. We gave up… for now. I didn’t truly realize the damage until a few years latter when my wife and I decided to challenge ...
Now, of course, as I write this, it's another twenty years down the line. Twenty years ain't what it used to be. So, if you're curious about what sort of music I might have been listening to forty years ago (ouch!), you might enjoy this two-hour dollop of it....
It seems like I had 2006 of them though I probably met only twenty women on line last year. I met one woman whose profile said she was 5′ 9″, 37 years old and had never been married. But somehow in the few days between the time I wrote to her and the time we met for lunch...
“As for the despicable reports regarding my beloved dogs, those who know me know I would never harm any animal as they are God’s most beautiful and innocent of creations. I’m a vegetarian because of my respect for all animals.