My journal of big words and pretty pictures
I hope that this change in seasons will give me the kick I need to get motivated… to do more than sit on my arse and binge watch Netflix. Well, I am crocheting but that takes very little effort. It’s been rainy around here, so even it I was so inclined, I wouldn’t go outside [...]
Perhaps it’s a sign of advancing age, but when I found a little extra money in my budget this month I didn’t opt for new spring clothes or a new purse, no I was more practical. I bought a spot rug cleaner, and I am ][ this close to being giddy about shampooing my carpet. [...]
This week is the beginning of Lent Season ~ that 40-day stretch in the Christian calendar distinguished by hundreds of thousands of people depriving themselves of chocolate and alcohol in the month leading up to Easter ~ Wednesday begins a time of fasting from sin and vice. Just as with making a New Year's Resolution, [...]
We are sneaking into March later this week and I am SO looking forward to warmer, and hopefully less damp, weather. In the region of Florida where I live, late February - early March is considered planting season. I have potted plants that didn’t fare too well over the winter - mostly due to neglect [...]
Part 1... A middle-aged woman, dressed in a flowing patchwork skirt and an embroidered white cotton blouse, topped with a swirl of silver, teal and magenta curls, lounged in a chair in Gleason’s office. Her right, bare foot tucked under her, and her left foot, her knee bent almost to her chin, planted flat on [...]
Empty plates and utensils, rinsed and stacked in the sink along with drink glasses free of orange juice dregs, were waiting patiently to be loaded into the dishwasher. “I love that you cooked us breakfast. I love that you cleaned up the kitchen, but your attention to the stovetop is sorely lacking.” He slung the [...]
“This is the part I hate the most,” Dr. George Gleason stood outside Clyde Phillips’ room. “Even the term, ‘death watch,’ disturbs me.” As the administrator of Lakeside Rehabilitation Center, Gleason knew every resident and every story, except Clyde Phillips. The 94-year-old Phillips was the oldest and longest resident at Lakeside and was not expected [...]
