After waking up yesterday morning, Erics’ first day of his sophomore year, to help Ann and Eric get things ready for their respective days, I was suddenly sucked into the mysterious darkness and depth of another petit mal seizure. Though this occurrence is nothing new, I truly believed that the intensity of this one was […]

My efforts to pull up the boards of our back deck had been going well for the four or five days I had been working on it….until this past Monday. Yes, as I was picking up the latest board I had pried loose, a couple of yellow jackets apparently took offense to me being on […]

Dear Mom, I thought a good way to let anyone reading this blog know what an unbelievable mother and person you were would be to ask each of your daughters and sons to tell me what thing or things they most remembered about you while growing up. Not surprisingly, I hit the jackpot.  Everyone responded […]