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ODE TO ELEANOR

It’s the cheeks for me I say as I show her photo But it’s much more than that It’s what she makes me see It’s what I now know But it’s much more than that It’s her ice-cream smeared lips And her little baby laughs But it’s much more than that It’s the way sheContinue reading “ODE TO ELEANOR”

Riding Naked: Celebrating 50 Years of Adventure and Loss

I fully intend to live the rest of my life creating memories worth sharing long after I’m gone.  I want my granddaughter to one day hold a picture of me up to her friends and say, “You know, my Oma did the wildest, craziest things!”

AMAZING GRACE AND A LIL PETER PAN IN ALL OF US

Oh Reading Rainbow, if you didn’t do anything else; you gave a little poor girl in the Mississippi Delta hope and the courage to be a little different from everyone else. I grew up on mostly dirt road (there are some sections that are paved) with the nearest neighbor my age about 1/2 mile away.Continue reading “AMAZING GRACE AND A LIL PETER PAN IN ALL OF US”

THANK YOU MR. BURTON

Not to be dramatic; but I’ve recently come to the conclusion that Levar Burton and his show “Reading Rainbow” may have saved my life. Let me explain. I recently heard that infamous theme song to Reading Rainbow. You know the words, “Butterfly in the sky. I can go twice as high. Take a look. It’sContinue reading “THANK YOU MR. BURTON”

A Heartfelt Hike: Lessons From the Art Loeb Trail

So how does a 47 year old woman, heartbroken, and at her very bottom, find herself lost in the Appalachian Mountains with her daughter wearing only one boot? Well, to answer that, we have to start at the very beginning.

A Grandmother’s Secret

“Some people are just the dirt in the bottom of a flower vase. Don’t make the mistake of giving them too much space; you gotta save room for the flowers that will take root in that dirt, grow with every curve and angle of your vase and blossom into full bloom for you over the top.”