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Laughing Lines, Part II

by Robin | Jun 16, 2014 | (in)courage, Aging, Faith, Personal, The Wonder of a Woman, Uncategorized, Women

Below is content originally included in my incourage post today but later deleted to meet word count guidelines. Like always, I wrote without regard to length, simply writing until I was done. The result was almost 400 words longer than it was supposed to be....

Don’t Cry For Me Argentina

by Robin | Jan 17, 2014 | Aging, Uncategorized, Women

It won’t be easy You’ll think it strange When I try to explain how I feel ~ “Don’t Cry for me Argentina,” from Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber It’s been a joke for years, a decade maybe, and it became stock answer for just about...

Ready Or Not…

by Robin | Feb 27, 2013 | Aging, Faith, Real beauty, Women

My cell phone rings, and it’s my doctor’s office, and I know this because long ago, and what now seems far away, I was smart enough to program their number so if I ever needed to call them, I’d already have it stored in contacts. Which, also means,...

Sometimes I write for “you”…

by Robin | Oct 24, 2006 | Aging, Faith, Family, Fathers and daughters, Uncategorized

…and sometimes I write for me. This one’s for me. Because I want to remember. It’s not a side often shown “here”, so many distractions…and well, it just takes longer (maybe only for me, I dunno). There’s so much more to...

A Different Kind of Father’s Day

by Robin | Jun 18, 2006 | Aging, Family, Fathers and daughters, Memoir, Personal, Uncategorized

This time last year, my dad’s mental faculty was declining but he was still living a fairly “normal” life. Now 74, until the past year or so he’s been pretty active and seemed younger than his chronological age. With his dementia onset on our...