After Boy was born, my sweet M-I-L ceremoniously handed me a folded and well-worn page torn from a women’s magazine. When I unfolded it, there was an image of a child’s birthday cake in the shape of an elephant. She told me that she had made the elephant cake for Husband almost from the time …
Sweet E
Fear can paralyze strength. Fear can belittle wisdom. Fear can create chaos. Fear can manipulate truth. Fear can amplify insecurities. Fear can mute goodness. Fear can blacken day. Fear can expand deceit. Fear can wither boldness. Fear can crush action. Fear is slippery and insidious and able to enter our spirit like a virus, exponentially …
Dearest Sweetest E, You’re gonna need friends as you stiff-arm your way through life; pick them well and they’ll be the lifeblood of your strength. Good friends make you believe you aren’t alone in the expanse of this world. Good friends are there even when physically absent, hell even in death. Good friends tell you …
A handful of years back I bought and inflated a small pool, or Tiny Pool to folks who knew me (now that’s you!). Our backyard is on the small side; we no havey room for a pool and a big dog. We chose to have the dog. Then one day, I came across this beautiful …
As Boy grew, we kept a growth chart right inside his closet door. I first wrote about it here. The last entry was dated right before he left for college. 6’2.25″ We grow ’em tall in my family. On Boy’s last visit home, he brought Sweet E, and we decided to start E’s chart beneath …
I wrote this post on vulnerability in the winter, a couple of days after Sweet E had been born and I offer it now in my “What I Will Tell Sweet E” series. (spattering of NSFW language) Vulnerability The “v” word is a tough one for me. I was brought up to be a lady …
Be grateful, my baby. Seems easy enough. We all know folks who look at their life with dissatisfaction. I’m not talking about the kind of emotion that is healthy and propels us onward to bigger and better things in our life, I’m talking about the kind of dissatisfaction that weighs on a person and makes …
As an elder in society…AM SO!…I think it behooves me to learn new things about the world around me, to challenge myself, even if that means I’m uncomfortable. Coding makes me uncomfortable. Yes, the kind of coding used for computers, or blog design, or creating apps. It’s crazy to me that I should try and …
Our Sweet E is here and there is so much I want to tell him. Mostly this… Dig Yourself Once you get over what folks think about you, and believe me they will always have an opinion, life gets easier. Once you get to that point, you get to ask yourself what’s important to you, …
You read that right, but I’ll go over it again: Chocolate. Covered. Gummie. Bears. Two quick asides before we get to the aforementioned bears: #1) I grew up in West Texas with a German-born mother, whose family sent us packages of the original Haribo Gummie Bears when I was a kid. No one else knew …