Archive for the ‘mother’ Category

• Social networking brings me an unexpected gift

  Thursday, February 25th, 2010

  Retirement and a chronic illness has left me searching for an alternative method for renewing friendships or forming new ones. This last month I have renewed a friendship with a young woman who was an integral part of my youth. I became a member of Classmate.com on a whim. I got a shock as I [...]

• What I am most thankful for

  Friday, November 27th, 2009

  This year of my life has been the most difficult of my sixty plus years. But as my son and sister in law most aptly put it, I still have much to be thankful for.   The first and most important thing that I am thankful for are my son and daughter. Most mothers are [...]

• I wish it had been me

  Monday, September 7th, 2009

  After reading the story about a man slapping a crying two year old in the face three or four times, I wished it would have been me and my child. Don’t get me wrong. I would not have wanted my child to have been slapped. But if someone was fool enough to put his hands [...]