Not Just Another Mother Blogger!

These days, I read or hear of people requesting prayers for other people going through cancer, like I once was.  Since I'm proof that po...

I woke up this morning to hear the news of a mass shooting in Orlando, Florida,.  Mass casualties. A man went to an LGBT night club armed an...

I've always worried about my son's social skills.  He's an only extrovert growing up in a house full of introverts, after all.  ...

Last Friday found me at my son's school for Field Day.  Most Field Days at elementary schools involve races and other feats of athletici...

Friday night found Zane, Larry, and I sitting in the third row, center, of my niece Courtney's school production of The Wizard of Oz.  S...

I've been back at work for a couple of weeks now. I hit the ground running, which was a sign that my absence had been noticed and apprec...

When my family returned to the states from Germany in the late seventies, we were completely flabbergasted by television.  We suddenly had T...

Tick  A squalling newborn Tock I merely blinked And the minutes have Disintegrated, Dust in my trembling hands. The wind whisk...

Deserted school parking lot, In my car Alone, Afraid of The far away voice.    "You have cancer," Said the physician. Wo...

Big, round, and RED, it sits sanctimoniously in the middle of the desk.  As he angrily barks out orders to his minions, Gordon's fat f...

I stood confidently at the top of the stage, my shoulders back, my back stiff with pride.  Graduation cap set jauntily, I waited for my name...

Strange, alien tubes, heavy with fluid, pull at the skin where they are stitched into place. Each drop from the IV pushes me further into th...

Calypso stood vigil, silently waiting for the frigate to appear, returning her heart's desire. No entreaties moved her. The moon ros...

As the lazy rays of the sun stretch and yawn over the horizon, slowly warming the sky, the first drops of my awareness glisten in the...

I'm singing out a Hallelujah I'm chanting an Amen And the believers, enthusiastic, clap along. I'm smiling, my head held high An...

  I want to grab the man by his collar and tell him to snap out of it. But he's not any different than any of us at the moment.  Lots ...

  Who will go to space? The Final Frontier?!! I stood on my toes, stretched my arm to the sky.  "You're too short, son," the c...

The newly deceased arrived at the pearly gates of Heaven in groups of five or ten, as usual.  The white light delivered them like clockwork....

The cowboys grew tired of riding the trails, sleeping on hard ground, underneath the infinite sky. Their insignificance terrified them. Le...

I stood up a little straighter.  The sound of the gate closing behind me cut the final leash that had held me in check, and I felt the weigh...