Sitemap - 2024 - Life Things

Dropped Stitches

"naked love and defiant courage and salty grace"

gratitudes among the chaos that is life

giving myself some grace

lead with our hearts

life things

"a small group of thoughtful people"

my resistance is living

we are all cassandra now

when october goes....

trust fall

by any other name would smell as sweet

Signs, Glimmers, Magic

Middle Age? Only if I Live Until I'm 130.

Taking Care of the Minutes

5 Pillars: Why Am I Still So Tired?

They Call Me CeCe

Sleep and Me: A Toxic Relationship

Still Letting Go...And Holding On: A New Challenge

Letting Go, Yet...

Always Voting

My Mom

Back to the 80s

A Crib, Rocker, and Lullabies

Food from my Childhood and Beyond: My Journey

My Car Odyssey: The Shumate Curse

May Day

The Ice Storm

My Regrets: Lessons on Living

Everything is a Miracle: Earth Day 2024

Dad’s Stories Saved My Life

The Bittersweet Prayer of Spring

Reflection and 2nd Assignment - Memoir Writing Class

Bad Guests

Day 40: Why Am I Here?

Day 39: Is Aging Gracefully Really a Thing?

Day 38: A Robe, Recliner, and Reading Morning

Day 37: Is Happiness Tangible?

Day 36: Our Park is a Love Letter

Day 35: Everyone Needs a Nancy

Day 34: The Women by Kristin Hannah

Day 33: My Former Life

Day 32: A Stream of Babbling Words Connected by Webs of Gibberish (and prepositional phrases with a pinch of alliteration and a little thesaurus action)

Day 31: The Perfect Pair of Shoes: A (sort of) Fairytale Poem

Day 30: A Garden of Happy

My Happy Place: Stay Tuned

Day 29: Love Gestures

Day 28: Storms, Windex, and Magic Erasers, Oh My!

Day 27: Ubuntu: We Are All Connected

Day 26: “No Mud, No Lotus"

I’ve got nothing...

Day 25: Look Up

Day 24: Sunday Haiku

Day 23: My 5 Star Winter Reading List

Essential Friendships

Day 21: Dad’s Legacy

“Livin’ On a Prayer"

My Happy Place

A Bad Poem, A Skip Day, & A Cloudy Memory

Ten Words Walked Into a Mall

Leap Day: my “tiny, perfect things"

Our Loves, Our Pets

False Spring, A Love Letter

What is a Memory?

A Riot of Spring Haikus

A Saturday Poem

Interior Monologue: Blah...Blah...Blah

The Beauty of a Random Compliment

Kindred Spirits

A Sunday Poem

My Inheritance

What Did My Grandmother Teach Me?

Day 2 - Anne Lamott’s Short Assignment

40 Days in Search of My Old Creative Self: Where Is She?