Eavesdropping

Eavesdropping

Overheard while in a dressing room, trying on the cutest Sweet Pea by Stacy Frati top– Woman 1:  "It's black.  Anything can go over black.  It's a law.  I'm sure it's written somewhere." Woman 2: {{giggles in...

Dream job

Dream job

A long, two-story professional building and its reflective windows–the kind you can see out of but not into–cast a perfect reflection of my car as I slipped into a space in the near empty narrow parking lot. It served as a perfect mirror to check my...

Garage talk, conclusion

Garage talk, conclusion

{Please read Part One for context} A phone call with my sister left me wondering what impression I left from my previous post's stopping point; she seemed to think I was living under a weight of self condemnation and guilt. Neither couldn't be farther from...

Last gift

Last gift

My father was notorious for imaginative gift-giving, particularly in the last years of his life. Rarely the one to act on a suggestion, if he saw something he thought you needed, he’d get it; never you mind, it was something you couldn’t even sell on...

Garage talk

Garage talk

The memory is chiseled in my mind as in stone.  It was during the season I learned to enjoy my own company, a life-lesson years in the making. Sitting on a park bench sipping a Chick-Fil-A lemonade and reading To Kill a Mockingbird for the fourth time, a cozy...

Art therapy

Art therapy

Chalkboard technique   A darlin’ thank you note & a magnetic calendar   And invitations for this year’s annual Mother-Daughter Valentine Tea Party?  The absolute, stinkin’ darling-est card of them...

Giddy up!

Giddy up!

Calls to action, people, and it's not about me.  It's about them.  It's about you.  And…okay…somewhere in there "I am" in it sorta indirectly, but really, it's not about me.  Please read on til the end:...

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