This photo of Coco, our gorgeous Snowshoe Siamese cat, was taken the night following Christmas day. Exhausted from the flurry of…
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Gone Girl
Gone Girl – that’s me. I’ve been absent from this blog for many, many months, joining the ranks of languishing…
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You Haven’t Seen This One
My aunt passed away on April 7th. To honor her and my family, this is the eulogy I gave at…
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The Pieta
My aunt died yesterday. Two days after Easter, she was gone. Until 2 weeks ago, her death was not imminent…
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So This is Christmas
So this is Christmas…baby Sweet Cheeks, in all her red-headed glory, stares in awe at the sight of her first…
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Open Hands
So the Google bots can read what is written on my beautiful sunrise photo above, I’m repeating it below: Everything…
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You Be Bitches
“You be bitches,” I say softly, my voice cracking from my roiling emotions. Tears well up in my eyes as…
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Twice Baked Turkey in a Citrusy Apple Cider Brine
You know that daylight savings time happened this past weekend, right? Yea, I know too, but my body has yet…
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Love Leaves a Memory
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, loves leaves a memory no one can steal.” – from an Irish…
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Pictures at an Exhibition
My father died a year ago today. A retired Air Force C-130 pilot, my dad was an artist at heart. …
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Requiem for My Father
Every Sunday, at least every Sunday that my father was home, he woke us up by playing Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at…
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HeART and Soul
I grew up surrounded by art. Not reproductions of famous paintings, but artwork created by my father. He was…
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