I went to the basketball game last night to see the Nets play the Heat. The Nets lost, and I don’t want to talk about it. What I want to speak to is the walk I took near the end of half-time. Sometimes at this point in the evening at the game I will use …
I have been chatting with the cousins since March 2020 during the first dark days of Covid. We are up to 18 now, first cousins, second cousins, cousins of cousins and one auntie who we call our Queen Bee. The other day, Queen Bee posted “…when I went out to get my newspaper there was …
My husband had a medical procedure the other day and the plan was for him to go to the facility and I would meet up with him when he was ready to come home. I was a little anxious, concern for my husband, but continued on with my morning activities and prepared to leave at …
I met up with granddaughter “M” on her last day of school. Her bag was filled with stuff that she brought home including some poems that she wrote for class. As she read them I recalled a poem that I wrote when I was her age. I can’t remember the whole poem just the first …
The other day I stood looking out the window of the apartment at nothing in particular, and I realized in that moment how calm I was. This moment was different than other times I may feel at peace; it was as though there were an absence, rather than a presence of any thing, a depth …
My nine year old granddaughter and I have built a few cardboard projects over the past 3 years or so. We built a house, an aquarium, shopping mall, and a circus and now we are building a resort. We would meet up a couple of times a week to work on the project but since …