“First Time Since the Fire” Experiences

May 10, 2014

We bought huge steaks yesterday since they were on sale and decided to have a barbeque celebration-send off dinner for …

Words on a Page

May 9, 2014

Stories. I have written about our habit of starting the day with breakfast and me reading aloud this blog. Sometimes …

May 8, 2014

I am not a facebook person. I have an account and a few times a year go and look at …

May 5, 2014

We are shopped out. For the first few weeks after the 2012 Charlotte Mink Creek Fire raged through our neighbor …

April 29, 2014

About 6 days ago we suddenly lost it. We lost the patient capacity to wait. We have to have this …

April 28, 2014

Some things are written in stone. We say “it’s not written in stone” when we expect the person with whom …

April 27, 2014

Welcome home. I left that note at the bottom of the stairs that lead up from the basement apartment where …

April 24, 2014

For months after the fire my mantra was “I just want to go home.” After a while that grief-weary feeling …

April 23, 2014

I could write an expository discourse on mud. I would not even have to pontificate to put forth a mud …