Category Archives: Humor
Inner Adult
I recently had a discussion about the “inner child” – the well-founded idea that there is a distinct part of us that is still the small child we used to be. In the concept of the inner child, our greatest joys and greatest fears arise from the child we used to be. What we loved …
Just What I Always Wanted (Really)
Yes, that is the title of my novel. But it’s also exactly how I feel about this little guy. What more could I possibly want? Merry Christmas! With love from Nancy & Theo
Best Christmas Ever
My novel, JUST WHAT I ALWAYS WANTED, is completely fiction. Almost. In the book, Cynthia (the main character) listens to her sister Angela’s remembrance of one long-ago Christmas. Out of 92,000 words, this little anecdote – less than 800 words – is the one little bit of truth. A not-so-fictionalized account of the Christmas when …
Status: In A Relationship
On December 1, I wrote about my pressing need for Patience. The cause of my patience deficit was, of course, my puppy. Theo and I had not had a good week. His emerging leash skills had retreated back into the weird cave he seemed to share with Satan. He nipped constantly at the backs of …
Waiting Patiently For Patience
If you were born any time after 1970, you probably remember the energy crisis of 1979. The revolution in Iran had curtailed oil production. In retrospect the decline in oil production was quite small, but no one seemed to know that then. The crisis was not due to a true oil shortage, but the Fear …
Sisters
Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s a reprise from four years ago: SECOND HAND ROSE This Thanksgiving, I am thankful for my sisters. That’s me in the middle on the first day of school. I was six, I think. That would make Christine (on the left) ten, and Claudia (on the right) just shy of nine. …
The Symbol Of My Discontent
I have an image of Reincarnation that I would so like to be true. I wish that Reincarnation was a chance to make the Other choices in your life. I want to be born again in exactly the same circumstances to exactly the same family. But when I come to those pivotal decisions in my …
Veterans Day – Thanks, Dad
In honor of Veterans Day, here’s a reprise of a post I wrote four years ago. Thank you, Dad, for your service to our country, and for being the amazing father that you were. THE SMARTEST PERSON My father died this past Christmas. Yesterday was his birthday. He would have been 89. My Dad was …
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