Once again, the time has come where blue bulbs grace front porch lights and enormous monuments around the world are robed in blue light. It’s World Autism Awareness Day… an international movement that has most certainly helped to make people “aware” that this thing called autism exists in our world. But it has not necessarily … Continue reading
Muñeco de Año Nuevo – Good Riddance to 2017
I don’t know about the rest of you, but around here 2017 was pretty much a dumpster fire. Oh, don’t get me wrong… there were some good moments. I’m finally in my senior year. My fibro pain is mostly under control. I was able to travel a bit – went to Denver twice and Miami … Continue reading
On Behalf of a Grateful Nation…
Ed. Note: This piece was written both as catharsis on the loss of my grandfather, and as ethnographic research paper for Dr. Marvin Sterling‘s ANTH-E393 World Fiction and Cultural Anthropology class at Indiana University. It is both biographical and fictional. The sky is a brilliant blue. There’s a warm breeze drifting up over the hill … Continue reading
Thoughts from the wee hours…
After having just climbed back in bed after yet another late night trip downstairs with the tiny-bladdered dog, I have so many random thoughts floating around… Continue reading
On Ma’s porch swing…
My paternal grandmother would have been 85 today. She left us almost eight years ago… Continue reading
Up on the Roof
My hair was a mess. I didn’t have my camera. But then my son snuggled up against me and said, “Isn’t this a lovely night?” Continue reading