When you’re not having a good hair day… a clip, a brush and lotion.

Today is one of those day’s – I’m just not having a good hair day. It’s just not doing what I want it to do… this always seems to happen on a day that I actually need it to look good!  Perfect hair doesn’t do me any good at school pick-up, well… that is unless [...]

Craving Beef Stew

It was on Saturday afternoon that I began to crave Beef Stew. It was raining… slushing, really, here in Rhode Island. It was cold.  Chills cold.  And a rare Halloween weekend snowstorm was in the forecast for Saturday night into Sunday morning. Of course I craved Beef Stew! I grew up with meat.  I came [...]

Claw Toy Machine aka “The Loser Machine” becomes a winner!

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about my grandson Ben and a little stuffed animal he “won” in one of those Claw Toy Machines… aka (in my  household) The Loser Machine. I think I totally caved into The Loser Machine hype when I wrote:  I now think all of those stuffed animals in the [...]

My Mom in 1958

Sometimes when we contemplate the age old question of why we are what we are… maybe we should just look at old 8 mm movies. My Mom is the one in the blue swimsuit with the white trim.  Isn’t she just lovely beyond belief?  She still is.  Her cousin Claire, now deceased, is the one [...]

A man to love

It is not Father’s Day or my dad’s birthday (though it will be next week!) or my parents’ anniversary… but I recently found something beautiful that my mom wrote about my dad a long time ago and I asked her if I could share it. Way back in the summer of 1981, when I was [...]