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Mega “Stuf” Grief as the Tide Continues the Drift

Now Playing: “Sugar Shack” by Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs (1963)(It was my parents’ song because my mother’s parents once owned a tiny restaurant called the Sugar Shack. Isn’t that adorable?) Listen along! Today, I ate Mega Stuf Oreos and drank Coke Zero while trying to write my mother’s obituary. (She’s not gone yet, butContinue reading “Mega “Stuf” Grief as the Tide Continues the Drift”

Proud Parent Alert: Mia’s Commissioning Ceremony

I tried to find some literary way to write this post, but no go. No matter what I try to write, it comes out all proud and “parenty.” So be it. I don’t want our daughter’s accomplishments to be “eclipsed” by the past few days, so despite our having been in the path of totality,Continue reading “Proud Parent Alert: Mia’s Commissioning Ceremony”

Writing is the Ultimate “Choose Your Own Adventure”

When my baby sister, Cherokee, was very young I would read her favorite books to her on Saturday mornings. Too soon her favorite stories were from the “Choose Your Own Adventure” books. I don’t know why but I never really cared for them, but she did. In them you were given two choices at aContinue reading “Writing is the Ultimate “Choose Your Own Adventure””