In the past couple of weeks….a dear friend of mine lost her husband to pancreatic cancer. A week later, she unexpectedly passed away in her sleep, leaving family and friends stunned and reeling with the loss. A few days afterward, I was reading (and rereading) all the messages that had passed back and forth between…
We know a little first grader in the town where we live, the son of mutual friends, named Robbie. His class is doing a map project by collecting postcards from around the United States and the World. If anyone would like to help Robbie out by sending a postcard, here is the address: Robbie Vavrik/Miss…
(I wrote a little story for fun for a little girl who is 2 going on 3, the daughter of friends of mine. I used mutual Facebook friends and their pets, as characters in the story, with everyone’s permission. I tried to incorporate some personal hobbies from each person too, and made photo-shopped images for…
(I wrote a little story for fun for a little girl who is 2 going on 3, the daughter of friends of mine. I used mutual Facebook friends and their pets, as characters in the story, with everyone’s permission. I tried to incorporate some personal hobbies from each person too, and made photo-shopped images for…
(I wrote a little story for fun for a little girl who is 2 going on 3, the daughter of friends of mine. I used mutual Facebook friends and their pets, as characters in the story, with everyone’s permission. I tried to incorporate some personal hobbies from each person too, and made photo-shopped images for…
(I wrote a little story for fun for a little girl who is 2 going on 3, the daughter of friends of mine. I used mutual Facebook friends and their pets, as characters in the story, with everyone’s permission. I tried to incorporate some personal hobbies from each person too, and made photo-shopped images for…
(I wrote a little story for fun for a little girl who is 2 going on 3, the daughter of friends of mine. I used mutual Facebook friends and their pets, as characters in the story, with everyone’s permission. I tried to incorporate some personal hobbies from each person too, and made photo-shopped images for…
I’m sitting here in my living room with my cats and my dog, watching CNN. They were showing the photos of all the Sandyhook victims followed by a random act of kindness posted on social media….something that was done in the name of one of the victims. I am moved to quiet tears as I…
Haiku for PJ (By Sasha’s Mommy) Orange striped PJ Cat Sunshine waxing in our hearts Tabby majesty (I wrote this for a friend on MySpace, who’s beloved kitty PJ had crossed the Rainbow Bridge)
THE KITTEN AND THE ROSE Beth gazed out the window holding a now cold mug of coffee in her hands. It was windy outside and hadbeen drizzling all night. “The day looks like I feel,” she mused. The terrible events of two years ago came to her, unbidden, as they had every day since. The…