True Treasure
The boxes are unpacked but I’m still arranging and rearranging, switching and exchanging, redoing and replacing odds and ends…always looking…
A Grandmother’s Confession
You may think I’m a mature woman with grandchildren, but there are times I’m a junior higher with acne. I have proof. Last…
TRANSITION
I am resistant to change. There’s good reason for that. I could blame my parents for we lived in the same…
GETTIN’ READY
The sign’s up in our yard, the virtual tour’s on the internet, and the repairs are complete. We’ve been getting…
De-Cluttered
Our house is filled with treasured knickknacks and family photos spanning the generations. I love being surrounded by what’s important…
The Mistake-Fixer
I’m old enough to remember typing on a manual…before electric machines took over…before computers became keyboards. I remember fixing mistakes…
If Walls Could Talk
It wasn’t much to look at. Our little red bangalow was sandwiched so closely between two larger homes that I…
Thanks, Mom
Thanks, Mom, for all the things you’ve done to make me who I am today. You labored tirelessly to make…
Celebrate
Family dinners have always been important to us Coopers. Sharing a meal together at a favorite restaurant often overrides home…
Icicles and Ants
Sometimes things just don’t make sense. Take for instance the effects of a long snowy winter season. Our house was loaded…
Even Though…
Painful situations are all around me. They are separate and different yet interestingly connected. AN EARTHQUAKE One touch of the…
Salutations
As a former business major, I was drilled on the proper way to write a letter. From salutation through closing,…
His Shoulders
You know what I love? Being relieved of a burden. When things are taken care of for me and it’s…
Forget Not
Making a list and checkin’ it twice…that’s me. Problem is most of my lists are in my head and by…
My Old and Tattered Address Book
What is it about my old and tattered address book that keeps me from throwing it away. It’s barely needed…