We moved in March of 2017 from Hawaii to Oshkosh, WI. Hindsight tells me that the timing wasn't the best as it was still dark and depressing and as different as possible from home. All kinds of things went wrong with that move including the movers losing, breaking, or stealing the majority of our belongings. When you make a move of that magnitude you [...]

A few weeks I was at my grand son's preschool for Grandparent's Day. We did lots of fun things including an activity designed to help develop small mother skills.   "Grandma, Grandma, I'm winning!"   I explained that it was just an activity, no one was winning or losing. He saw it differently.   "Grandma," he stated with as serious a face as I've [...]

I grew up in  family of givers. As poor as we were, and we were so poor that we lived in what would be described as a ghetto area in a two bedroom house with eight children, we always had food to share. We had quite a few sketchy characters in and around our neighborhood, but everyone knew if you needed a meal you [...]