Tomorrow is my mother’s 79th birthday - or would be if she were still alive. She died in 1990 and at times like this, when I write about it, I can hardly believe it has been 18 years. For the last slice of my life, I want to share something that I wrote a few years ago, inspired, oddly enough, by my mother’s death.
This evening is the end of my spring break and I don’t want to go back to school tomorrow. I know, it’s shocking to hear a teacher say that, but it’s true. I worked all last week and still didn’t accomplish most of what I had hoped to accomplish - one more week and I [...]
Conference time again! This time, however, the conference is in my backyard - Marshall University is host to the Appalachian Studies Association conference this weekend. I’ve been working on a presentation with the research team I belong to and we presented today. It was fabulous - and I was so relieved! The conference is really [...]
I’m sitting here watching my husband taking up the metal stripping that separated the living room carpet from the linoleum in the entryway. Our floor has been rotting right inside the front door and we’ve waited until spring break to tackle the problem. Mike decided he was going to tackle it himself, although I was [...]
Today was a girl’s day. Katie’s home for a few days - and I managed to book a few hours with her for us to do a bit of bonding. We met at the mall and I started with a haircut. From there, we went to get a pedicure and found that it’s been a [...]
Yesterday I wrote a bit about my religious/spiritual journey - a much abbreviated version with 1000 important slices in between each sentence. This post focuses in one of those slices sandwiched between sentences.
When we lived in Lake City, first across the street from the Methodist Church and then later across the street from the [...]
Easter Vigil. It was only three years ago that I attended my first Easter Vigil, the one where I was confirmed in the Catholic Church and welcomed into full communion of the church. Undoubtedly, that was one of the defining moments of my life, and I’m thankful that at my age I am still open [...]
For the first day of spring and today’s Slice of Life, I’m resurrecting something I wrote in June of 1998.
Angels
I swallow hard to drown the panic
Faithless fear of losing something
I foolishly believe to be mine.
I forget that she is not the gift for me to keep
Instead, it is the honor of having her life touch [...]
Happy Birthday, Scott and Shane! Today, my twin nephews are 18! Twins run in Mike’s family - his grandmother was a twin. I’m glad that Betsy had the twins, however, there was a time when we thought we were having them.
Christopher, my first born, was my second pregnancy. The first ended when my baby [...]
St. Patrick’s Day - and guess who did not wear green? It’s not like I don’t own any - in fact, I own a lot of green (check out our school colors at http://www.marshall.edu). In fact, I have a whole football season’s worth of green, and then some.
I heard comments being made today about [...]
