Crazier Than Fiction

In the process of compiling my application for graduate school, I had to touch on some of the times life didn’t go so smoothly for me. Perhaps one shouldn’t wait until 41 to apply to graduate school because too much can happen that you then find yourself trying to explain. I was trying to write … Read more

Hiding from Myself

Perhaps when writing is the way that you examine your life, the avoidance of this practice is in reality an avoidance oneself. I have been struggling for a long time with the idea that it may be time for me to look for another job. It has been difficult for me to come to grips … Read more

Bethyl’s Blog

Mom on 86th Birthday

Guest Blogger: My mother has started “blogging” via email and this is her post for yesterday which seems an interesting follow-up to my “Hands” post: Today is my mother’s birthday. Alice Ardena Erickson Davis. December 13, 1887 – August 3, 1980. She was 40 when I, her fifth and last child, was born in 1927. … Read more

Crashed and Burned

In case you hadn’t noticed, I didn’t quite make it through the whole NaBloPoMo. That’s OK, I had a good time giving it a try. Luckily I ended on the appropriate shopping themed post. LOL I actually had a topic all ready to go for the next post, but life just got especially crazy. I … Read more

Hands

Dad Pam and Grammie

I was petting my cat tonight with a glass of red wine in my left hand. I watched my right hand as it gently stroked her head. Suddenly it was my grandmother’s hand that I saw. The color, the shape – worn yet gentle. She loved cats too. Her heart was wide with compassion, as … Read more

Blogging-Lite

I have no major content to share today. I can see how some of the blogs I read include a regular “review day” recapping what they’ve already written. It’s been strangely hot so after lamenting the absence of sun and warmth, we suddenly had quite the opposite. I’m trying to take advantage of it before … Read more