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Moving On

Some days, it’s hard to believe that Dad’s been gone now for two and a half years; other days, it seems long ago. But today, it seems very close. Today we closed — sold the house we’ve had since 1966.

The sale has been coming, and got real within the last month. I’ve moved stuff here to Lake Charles in a UHaul; I’ve moved stuff to Natchitoches in a UHaul. I’ve moved stuff to Lake Charles in my…

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Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Oh, the perils of being QM (Quasi Mom).  Seldom right.  Usually wrong.  That’s how it seems lately, anyway.

Trying to learn to live with a 22-year-old (or at least this 22-year-old) is, in many ways, like looking in a mirror.  And the mirror is cracked.

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Grief Revisited

The last month has been a whirlwind of change.  

My niece moved in with me, something that we’ve long discussed.  Her life has been difficult, to say the least, and in the last few years filled with turmoil.  Here we hope that she can find her way through…

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What Happened?

It doesn’t seem possible that I haven’t blogged in over a month!  Just as I was getting back into the groove, life seemed to throw me in new directions.  Now, that’s not necessarily a bad thing . . . it’s just a thing.  And it took time.  And energy.  

Bu…

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It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

As many families did, the Ware family always put up the Christmas tree after Thanksgiving and kept it up until January 1. After we kids were grown and out of the house, however, the tree got put up later and later, especially as Mother’s health declined.…

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Let It Snow. . .

This week I’ve traveled outside of Louisiana and Texas for the first time since late July, when I returned from Greece. I spent the week at The Ridge Tahoe in South Lake Tahoe at Stateline, Nevada, where I’ve got a timeshare. The resort is an 11-acre…

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The Giving Season

Conversations with strangers can lead to unexpected connections.

Only this weekend, while I’ve been at Lake Tahoe, this happened to me. I was having a facial and in talking with the esthetician she said that she’d just moved her 83-year-old father from…

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Rebooting

It’s been a while since I blogged — indeed, since I wrote anything. When I was at the beach house in November, I couldn’t manage to get online, and after that, I simply found myself in a kind of funk/period of contemplation. Day by day, I lived with a…

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Memories, Loss, and Joy: A Photographic Journey

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my parents and my brother, as well as my maternal…

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Time Travel - Buying an Apartment in Greece

Today I’ve been working on a book proposal for a group of essays that I’ve written about visiting Greece, about being a part-time expat there, and about owning an apartment in Greece.  I”m getting ready to submit to some agents at a conference, and so…

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Honoring a Parent

Late last week I ran into a friend at Starbucks — she and her husband, along with another couple I know, recently traveled to Turkey and Greece, and I couldn’t wait to hear all about her trip.  Our conversation soon changed, though, taking a turn that…

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Being Here Now: An Appreciation for the Moment

There’s a lot in the news lately about mindfulness.  Not that it’s a new idea — not at all.  In fact, it’s quite old, one of the seven factors of enlightenment in Buddhism.  Being mindful as part of daily life would, the Buddha taught, keep people in…

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