I dreaded the task ahead of me and had been procrastinating for too long. Today was the day that I would finally handle the business of changing my Dad’s primary death benefit recipient from my mother to his secondary heirs. Why was this so hard? It seems that everything requiring the permanent removal of my…
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Thief of Memories
The gray corridor is long, and dimly lit. Empty bookshelves now line the walls where volumes of life history once resided; fascinating stories of childhood, travel, talent, love, family. One by one the books have been removed from the shelves and cast into an irretrievable space. He was born on Monday, March 15, 1926 at…
When I Leave
It was a conversation that I was not comfortable with, purely for selfish reasons. I simply was not ready to let my Mama go. For almost 70 years she had beautifully and consistently influenced my life with her sweet, loving ways. To carry on without her was beyond my comprehension. But she insisted that we…
Carry On
I haven’t written for nearly two years. For an author, this admission is not a particularly good omen. Well on my way to a third publishing, a divine intervention was about to occur that would usher in an abrupt change of course. Banish book-writing, editing, and marketing. This was a higher calling, one that required…
Field of Memories 