— Coloring Life with Love, Lyme, & Laughter —
Love lives on forever, even after the body has been returned to the ground and the angels are rejoicing in heaven. Sometimes the love left behind gives us strength. Sometimes it looks like two twin boys who march forward, not knowing yet the depth of their loss. Sometimes it looks like a little girl growing... Continue Reading →
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 39,000 times in 2015. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 14 sold-out performances for that many... Continue Reading →
My Izzi isn't like most five-year-olds. She is pensive and cautious, generally insistent on following the rules. She prefers order and structure and struggles to fall asleep if her bedroom isn't tidy. At least weekly, she begs me to let her "organize" something --bathroom drawers, the spice cabinet in the kitchen, her sister's bookbag. Breaking... Continue Reading →
If I had to describe my childhood Christmases in one word, it would easily be excessive. Not because our family was rich by any means, but because my mother went overboard every single year, largely, I think, because she couldn't afford to buy us much throughout the rest of the year. She was overcompensating. Growing... Continue Reading →
A little over two weeks ago, I cozied up with my laptop, ready to write a post before the Thanksgiving break disruptions set in, only to discover that WordPress, my blog hosting site, suddenly wanted to me to enter a password. A password that my browser had never failed to recollect since its creation about nine months... Continue Reading →
A Broken Crayon 