Category: Family
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Residual Thoughts On… Babies!
Sunday afternoon Dad and I assume all his sisters got a text. A baby would be visiting my Grandma that day. We didn’t get there at the designated time and it was meant to be a strictly family gathering; but we got to see him. Since my cousin’s wife works where Grandma lives everyone knows…
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The Oath of Office
I still remember the 2016 election so intimately. The night Donald Trump won was actually really early the next morning. I stayed up to watch as much as I could from my computer. Once he gave his Victory Speech it was still hard to go to sleep from the excitement. Later on that day I…
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Listen For The Crickets
Back in World War II it was difficult for my Grandpa to admit how hungry the men got in those stalags. My parents remember him telling them about having to eat some bugs for protein. It wasn’t a source of pride for him to admit this fact it was simply his hunger pains. I still…
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A Surprise
My emotions are still too high to talk about this morning so I will talk about yesterday. My mom’s older brother and wife came up to check on some things and chat. When they came in I was literally finishing my writing prompt. So I did hear Uncle Floyd’s here, but I was trying to…
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Eve’s Legacy
Reading through this book has been… quite mesmerizing for me. I have these residual emotions after each book that highlights a woman from the bible. This however, seems different because she produced the first humans who roamed the world after God created her and Adam from the dirt. God was in each and every detail…
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Presidents Day 2024
When I worked in Dialysis back in 2022 I didn’t really get a family vacation that year. When I worked at DaVita I was able to get a week off in September. That was before my surgery to take out the hardware in my arm though a lot changed. Then I got on at Fresenius…
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Surveillance
Do you remember how Covid felt being watched and having to account for your time and what you were doing to someone from the health department? The mandates that were so conveniently and easily placed on American citizens… Do you remember how belittling that felt? Last night I just finished a chapter in Jill Eileen…
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Nostalgic Thoughts
This evening I went up with Mom to this house. Our dryer is not drying very well. So we are having to use Uncle Tony’s. It has been a while since I have been in the basement. There are such memories all through this house and in the basement. Some of Grandma’s art is still…
Jewells of Thought 