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Blessed
The week before Thanksgiving, I was in a HomeGoods store, pushing my grandson in a cart, looking for a roast pan small enough to fit my mini-oven, when a woman approached me and said: “You are so lucky.” A … Continue reading
Posted in community, everyday life, Family, friends, life, marriage, mothers and daughters, relationships, transitions
Tagged dogs, fortunate, friends, gratitude, happiness, lessons in life, life, lucky, neighbors, siblings
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Morning Light
On the morning of Valentine’s Day, the light at sunrise was intensely beautiful. I was so taken with the light, I grabbed my camera before heading out with the dogs. It had snowed during the night, not much, just a … Continue reading
Posted in changes, dogs, everyday life, Family, marriage, relationships
Tagged dogs, husbands, relationships, Valentine's day
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The Maine Event
Thirty-five years is a long time, three and a half decades of change and challenge. A woman would think that there would be some expensive trinket to commemorate this, but the gift for thirty-five doesn’t have the gleam of forty … Continue reading
The Honeymoon Seat
This week my husband and I celebrated our thirty-fifth wedding anniversary by taking a trip to Acadia National Park in Maine. Until we began planning our trip, we didn’t know that one of the unique features of Acadia was its … Continue reading
Posted in adventures, Aging, everyday life, Family, lessons in life, marriage, New England, photography, poetry, relationships, travel, Uncategorized
Tagged anniversary, carriage horses, husband, marriage, paths, relationships, roads, travel
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Home Alone
If I could remake the 1990 film, Home Alone, the mom would be the one left behind. Ah, the joy. She would rush out of the bathroom and see her family leaving for the airport in a cab, the mounds … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, boomerang children, community, everyday life, Family, lessons in life, life, marriage, not so empty nests, relationships, transitions
Tagged adult children at home, aging parents, grandchildren, home alone, in the middle, not so empty nests, taking care of parents, the middle: between adult children and aging parents, Trace Adkins, transitions
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Hag
This weekend I celebrated a birthday. It wasn’t a milestone birthday, yet it was the first one that made me seriously reflect on birthdays. I wasn’t bothered or sad on any of the more momentous birthdays, the ones that have … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, boomerang children, changes, everyday life, friends, life, marriage, mothers and daughters, poetry, relationships, transitions
Tagged aging, birthdays, Emily Dickinson, friends, motherhood, poetry
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Part 10: Our New Nest
How important is the place where one lives? Is the building itself important? Or is it the way one feels when one retreats to one’s abode? Is home the heart? The mind? A fortress? A retreat? What makes a house … Continue reading
Posted in clutter, community, Family, houses, life, marriage, moving, relationships, transitions, Uncategorized
Tagged family, homes, life, moving, new homes, relationships, transitions, unpacking
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Part 9: Road Trip!
After the movers came and went, after we said our good byes to neighbors and friends, after we spent one last night in the house where we had lived for twenty-one years, we put the dogs in the truck, secured … Continue reading
Posted in childhood memories, Family, marriage, moving, relationships, transitions, travel
Tagged family, marriage, memories, relationships, transitions, travel
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