Forgotten Skills
Lorena
Do you have any skills you’ve lost over time? List as many as you can think of, no matter how proficient you were at them. Think back to your childhood,…
Monday Musings
Rituals
What ordinary rituals did your family have? Perhaps you always got ice cream after baseball games, or went fishing on Sundays. Do you feel like it brought you closer as…
Places
Remember a new place you visited (a cool house or restaurant, a new neighborhood, or even a new country). Try to remember seeing the place for the first time. How…
Dear Barbara; about your house
Barbara, I have never more wanted to talk to you then this week, when getting ready to sell your house. Why is everything so dusty? And I don’t mean just…
When is a house a home?
Working on Barbara’s house – which, I know, is my house – has been making me think a lot lately about the soul of a house. I’ve lived in a…
Beginnings
Recall a time in your life when you made a fresh start. How did your life change? Well, there was the time that I moved out of my dad’s house…
Big Feelings
I have most of a post written that I’m just not sure about posting, because… it doesn’t exactly put Tim in a shining light. It will probably come as no…
What am I missing?
What is it that you feel is missing from your life right now? List as many or as few items as you like. I kind of feel like the last…
Become the type of person you’d admire
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about my friend Juanita Frazier. Some of y’all know her, or know stories I’d tell of her. I met her when I was about…
Could I maybe not be tired, for just a little bit, please?
I was prepared for the anger that comes with grief. For the sadness. For the depression. For the confusion. OK, maybe not as much confusion as I’ve had, but I…
What are you willing to tolerate?
Like a journal, these posts are a place for me to be more honest about what was happening than I was on Facebook, or Caring Bridge, at that time. Some…
Senior Pictures
I started writing up a Facebook post this morning and got three paragraphs into it before I was like, this would make a better blog post, because I’m really going…