by Robin | Aug 18, 2015 | Aging, Empty Nest, Faith, Memoir, Parenting, Uncategorized
ii There’s this scene in the 1980s version of About Last Night where Demi Moore’s character, Debbie, is rebuffing her former lover’s (and boss’s) advances. Steve’s a persistent one, not believing her first “no” and reminding...
by Robin | Aug 11, 2015 | Aging, Favorite things, Marriage, Memoir, Personal, Uncategorized
Mr. Housman was a crusty old man with gravel in his voice. A stubble of white dusted the sides of his head. His skin was a map of liver spots and blotches. When he stood his tallest I could look him square, and his belly looked like he had swallowed a...
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 | Aug 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
There are writers and there are w r i t e r s and then there’s Amber Haines. Her fingers pour magic the way a rainbow paints the sky. You can’t look away and you want ’em to last forever. Her first book, Wild in the Hollow: On Chasing Desire...
by Robin | Jul 23, 2015 | Advice, Uncategorized
~ haven’t yet subscribed? please do! ~ Do you have a child who’ll be starting his or her freshman year in the next month or so? Trying to determine what he’ll need to take with him to college? Thanks to UGA for sending us their list of great ideas,...
by Robin | Jul 8, 2015 | (in)courage, Faith, Family, Marriage, Memoir, Uncategorized
We didn’t talk for two days after I wrote about him. Them. It wasn’t because he wouldn’t but because he couldn’t. “I know it’s all true because I’ve lived it,” he quivers, “but it’s still hard to...