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Category Archives: love
The Progression of “I’m Not Making Too Much for Christmas Dinner”
My family is pretty much…Italian. Especially my Mom. Every year around this time the conversation about Christmas Dinner plays itself out in this manner (which I would not trade for the world). A month before Christmas – possibly on Thanksgiving: … Continue reading
Plastic Magic
“I don’t believe you.” I think I said this a million times. “It’s true,” my mother, obviously exasperated with my disbelief, replied again and again. “Are you sure? Are you really sure?” “Yes. Yes, I’m sure – I wouldn’t lie … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood, Education, Family, Humor, Language, Librarian, love, Parenting, Random Thoughts, Reading, Relationships, Story, Words
Tagged books, childhood, disbelief, due date, library, library card
55 Comments
Memories of Mujadara
Some moments in time are perfect. When everything around you was just so; understanding, even then, that you are most likely going remember the time for eternity. It doesn’t have to be anything dramatic or even noteworthy, it’s just a time … Continue reading
I often wondered if I began talking in the womb…
Greetings People, I’m honored to have been tagged in a blog-tour that is happening right now. Honored and surprised as I’ve not really been an active blogger nor reader for a little bit of time – and I’ll explain why … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Childhood, connections, Humor, Language, love, News, Philosophy, Random Thoughts, Relationships, Sharon K Penmen, Story, Writing
Tagged blog tour, childhood, connections, england, Friendship, Humor, Writing, writing process
29 Comments
A Friend and a Feast
Author’s Note: (in the spirit of my friend, Sharon) this post has taken me a ridiculously long to time write. Part of it is I don’t want to quite let go and share of the magic of the day. The … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, connections, Humor, love, Random Thoughts, Relationships, Sharon K Penmen, Story, Writing
Tagged email, feast, Friendship, King's Ransom, Sharon K Penman, sharon kay penman, Tucson, tucson festival of books, Writing
53 Comments
Searching for Tribe
Give me some place that I can go Where I don’t have to justify myself Swimming out alone against this tide Looking for a family looking for tribe … Continue reading
Posted in Bikram Yoga, Blogging, Childhood, Children, Family, Italian, love, nostalgia, Philosophy, Random Thoughts, Relationships
Tagged black sheep, connections, Facebook, family, family tree, genealogy, grandfather, love, Music, musicians, New Model Army, politics, social networks
46 Comments
I know we are connected
In the past I was chastised by a peer. It concerned giving my opinion about a matter amongst a group of people. He took me to task because he felt that another person in the group might have been upset … Continue reading
Posted in Bikram Yoga, Blogging, Children, Coincidence, connections, Humor, love, Philosophy, Random Thoughts, Society, Teachers, Writing, Yoga
Tagged connections, friendships, networking, patterns, people, society, Yoga
92 Comments
Looking in the Mirror
Ish – this is a hard post to write. It’s always difficult to hold a mirror up to yourself and see something ugly reflected back, but I would guess that these kinds of self-discoveries are the kinds that help us … Continue reading
Posted in Aversions, Blogging, Childhood, grieving, love, Random Thoughts, Relationships, Writing
Tagged beliefs, Friendship, love, realization, religion, selfishness
79 Comments
Give Me it ALL, Rosetta Stone
The Daily Post queries If you could wake up tomorrow and be fluent in any language you don’t currently speak, which would it be? Why? What’s the first thing you do with your new linguistic skills? Yes, with the exception of … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Prompt, Humor, Language, love, Random Thoughts, Words
Tagged fish called wanda, Languages, learning language, rosetta stone, russian, speaking, welsh
75 Comments
Giving the Gift of Sound and Vision (and Movement)
I have a really, really, really amazing husband. Really, he’s amazing. One of his most amazing traits is gift giving. He’s freakin’ fantastic at it. I think it’s because he’s an observer. There’s not a lot of talking when he’s … Continue reading