I had long hair when I was little. Bangs in the front, but long hair on the rest of my head. Periodically I’d get it tangled and Mom or Grams would have to get to work trying to get it untangled. Often, they would pull on my scalp and I’d have a bit of a […]
From October 2013: com•pen•di•um [kuh m-pen-dee-uh m] noun, plural com•pen•di•ums, com•pen•di•a 1. a brief treatment or account of a subject, especially an extensive subject; concise treatment: a compendium of medicine. 2. a summary, epitome, or abridgment. 3. a full list or inventory: a compendium of their complaints. Marie at Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer does a […]
Anyone that is keeping track, I did write a post with a similar title 12 years ago: Whooooshhhhhhh! which contains a similar sentiment to this year. Busy summer, lots of life in motion, lots going on and lots of great memories! It was also one of those summers where I was processing an intense couple […]
I am not a big fan of what is going on right now in the country of my birth or of what is being done to the institutions and communities I love or of all the chaos and destruction that is being done to the things I hold dear. I frankly don’t understand how this […]
Hello from NOLA! My last day of the 2024-5 school year was last Tuesday and Terry and I are kicking off my summer break–and Terry being done with prostate cancer treatment–with a quick visit to New Orleans. Terry and I lived here from 2009-2014, but we have only been back once, for a quick Jazz […]
Father’s Day 2025 Happy Father’s Day to all the guys out there who play the role of father figure in someone’s world. Here is a quickly updated Father’s Day post for that wonderful guy that I call Dad. What a couple of years! While my mom has always tended to knock caregiving out of the […]
Wow! What a year since last Mother’s Day! My mom has had a tough couple of years on the medical front, keeping us all on our toes. As I said last year, Mom was raised not to air her trials and tribulations–nor for her daughters to go TOO public about private matters–but suffice it to […]
My Grandpa Cooper’s 1st cousin Evie turned 100 on January 5th of this year in England. Evie and I first corresponded while I was an undergraduate 35 years ago, when I was doing family research on the Coopers in England to add context as I was reading my great-grandparents WWI love letters. I then reached out again […]
I’m re-listening to James Clear’s “Atomic Habits” for at least the 6th time and one of his reminders is to “just do something”—some action—to get you started in a progressive direction and then you can build on that momentum, those small habits, and before you know it, you’ve made some major progress in changing the […]
I’ve been following the historian and writer, Heather Cox Richardson, for a couple of years now and have been blown away by all that I have learned from her and the community that has grown around non-traditional writers, bloggers, podcasters, and new media creators like her this past decade. She and others like Jay Kuo, […]
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