by Robin | Aug 6, 2015 | Memoir, Nostalgia, Parenting, Personal, Uncategorized
? (Thank you!) I’m not a cry-er. I chalk it up to using a lot of my Lifetime Tear Quota when my mom died the spring of ’72 and my beloved grandmother the summer after. Nothing hurts more than losing the ones you love most. Scraping my little...
by Robin | May 30, 2014 | Marriage, Memoir, Nostalgia, Personal
Ours wasn’t a fairytale romance. It was the kind of courtship that lasted years, where the heart is batted and bruised, where we both made damn sure the other was The One. Oh, sweet youth…where one dares to presume to k n o w such things! There were...
by Robin | Sep 9, 2013 | Encouragement, Faith, Family, Inspiring, Kids, Memoir, Mom stuff, Nostalgia, Personal
She addressed me by my favorite name behind Mom and Aunt, the one that gives shape to identity– “Mama D, why do you talk to us?” I cocked my head to the side not sure what she was really asking, like maybe I was saying too much or dragging her...
by Robin | May 16, 2012 | (in)courage, Faith, Favorite things, Memoir, Nostalgia
Have you given much thought to the strength of sense-memory? How a particular smell can immediately bring to mind people, places or events in your life? Though I demanded very little in the planning of my wedding, I just had to have gardenias in my bridal...
by Robin | Mar 19, 2012 | Memoir, Mom stuff, Nostalgia, Personal
It occurred to me while I was in the shower. ten thousand tears splattered glass bleeding tributaries invisible walls cry out desperate to be heard a crimson tee shirt hangs over the side of the tub, and through glass illusion i hear the song. * * ...
by Robin | Nov 30, 2011 | Health, Memoir, Nostalgia
The way my father expressed TLC sometimes tilted toward the rough and gruff, but there was no mistaking it as Love In Action; and it provided substance for some of my earliest childhood memories. Sometimes I think there's something wrong with me, though: my...