It is not an easy thing to lose your mother. Once, when I was three, I lost my mother in a grocery store. I remember looking at a row of canned food and then looking up for my mother and she was gone. She was there and then she was not. I can’t tell you [...]
A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards. ~A.A. Milne
As some of you may already know, I grew up with a very English, maternal grandmother and, therefore, a mother who was quite enamored with her heritage. Whenever I became ill, I was cautiously [...]
Photo Meme: Willtiful (Thursday Challenge)
Summer seems like a blur to me. A somewhat colorful blur, but a blur nonetheless. I fear that I am quite exhausted by the whole ordeal. When I attempt to wrap words around the past summer, I end up speaking in terms of events, destinations, hours on the road, loads of [...]
It would be so much easier if I could find a poem that could tell you of the ache that is in my heart, but that would be too easy. It wouldn’t be creating something that was mine to turn over and over in the sunlight and in the rain. Such things as this may [...]
Remember
Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you plann’d: Only remember me; you understand [...]
We just had a thunderstorm pass over here and there is a mist rising up from the ground. It is evening. Someone is grilling. I can smell the sweet smell of cooking meat mingled with the smell of damp moss and tree bark. I’m alone at home. Will has taken the girls to a baseball [...]
I know, I know… I haven’t been very faithful in posting lately. Someone please flog me.
When I first started this blog, I wanted it to be an outlet for the side of me that I felt I had been neglecting for too many years. In my younger years, I had dreams of becoming a [...]
For those of you who’ve decided to read along, here I am. I have a terrific headache and my children have been bickering for most of the afternoon. I can’t wait for spring to arrive. Being indoors is about to do me in. Lily has finally decided to work on her hook rug and Clara [...]
Diarist.net Spark
What would your motto would be for the place you’re at in your life right now? Is it different than it would have been five years ago? 10? 20?
I thought this writing prompt was interesting because of my instant response to it. My first response was what it would have been five, ten or [...]
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