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They Call Me Grammary
During a recent conversation with an online friend, I was surprised to hear she had been spending a great deal of time ponderin what she wanted her newborn grandson to call her when he started to talk. I soon discovered that naming the new grandparents is almost as important as naming the new baby. When [...]
Smelling Young
When we visited my daughter during the holidays, we slept in my 8-year-old grandson’s room. He came in one morning and crawled in bed next to my husband. “I smell something,” he announced. “What does it smell like,” I asked. “It smells like oldness.” We laughed about it for awhile, but then I began wondering, [...]
January Feelings
Today I’m feeling overwhelmed. Too much on my plate once again. I really do need to learn how to prioritize. My grandson was naturally upset when I forgot his birthday. I told him it was because my head was filled with so much stuff there wasn’t room for any more. “Then vacuum it out, Gramma!” [...]
January Gratitude
Every time I begin feeling sorry for myself about one thing or another, I run across someone who’s much worse off than I am. While I complain about our heating costs, one of my Twitter followers is heating her house with a kerosene heater because she can’t pay a $900 fuel bill. When I fret [...]
I’m blogging again!
I first started blogging back when they were called “weblogs” and consisted of links to sites of interest. At the same time, I was sporadically posting entries to an online diary. But, by the time the blog boom began, I was no longer part of the online writing in-crowd. Today’s blogs are a combination of [...]
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