Rain Boots
I will miss the rain when I’ve passed on… When I’ve died, gone to the other side, whatever happens when I’m no longer living in my body, I will miss the rain. I’m not sure when I started thinking this way. At some point I began realizing that I would not be here forever…
Gansey
When I was young, around nine, my mother and I moved back to New York to take care of my grandmother. She was diagnosed with breast cancer. I don’t really have many memories of her that are not in a house dress, or gansey as she called it. She had a mastectomy and back in…
Duffel Bag
A laundry mat is really not the place to make life decisions, but sometimes they work out. When Michael and I first started living together we rented this one and a half room place with concrete floors, before they were trendy, and a living room that barely had enough room for a futon (wow, remember…
Matching Tie
I was never good at science. I prefer things with a…multitude of answers. I specialize in the gray area, so I never paid attention in Biology. Now that I’m an adult, I wonder about certain things and often turn to the Internet. I know there are lots of useless and naughty things on the Internet,…
Bedazzler
One of the great challenges while raising children is helping them become adults without making mini versions of ourselves. I don’t want my children to be like me. I want them to learn from me and hopefully they’ve listened to some of my less than brief ramblings, but what I want most for them, aside…
Silly Skirt
Fun. So important to have and often hard to find as adults, unless shots of Tequila are involved. My sides hurt by the time I dropped my son off at school this morning. He has mastered fun. Granted he’s only 15, so there’s not a whole lot to worry about, but he is a fun…
Vintage Pants
Michael has a garden. Tomatoes, peppers and this season…strawberries. Four different kinds. He has vines planted on one wall of the side yard that has become his “space” and we just bought a great table for potted plants and tools. It’s starting to come together. Maggie is highly invested in the garden and has been…
Black and Navy
Life is…well, it’s interesting. I’m pretty comfortable with the idea of reincarnation. It makes sense that our soul would come back after our body gets tired and dies. I’ve had that feeling that I’ve “known someone before” and I’m not just talking about my odd attraction to Brett Favre. Of all the after death theories,…