Grandma Henrietta

I got the call this morning, the one I knew was coming. From the sound of my mother’s voice I knew what it was about. At first I wandered around in shock. I went outside, I walked around, and then it hit me: she was gone. My grandmother, Henrietta. The one with...

10 Day You Challenge: Six Places

In case you have read the other 10 Day You Challenges and are wondering where 7 went, the answer is: I have hidden it. As part of the 10 Day You Challenge, number 7 was to write 7 things you want. Well I think that is a little self indulgent and also a little...

Surgery Sookton, A Room of My Own, and Popcorn-Palooza

An hour before surgery and the nerves had started to kick in…big time. Rob was sitting by my side holding my hand and trying to warm me up, when I started to realize, wow, this is really happening right now. “You’re a surgery Sookton,” he said....

Avoidance

I am the queen of avoidance. If I don’t want to do it, or I am scared, or there is a big confrontation, I usually find the quickest way to exit, stage right. But avoiding is not living, and sometimes you have to grip the wheel and plow forward. Today is one of...