Before I get started: tonight is the eve before what will probably be one of the biggest events in American history for a very long time. But instead of trying to prognosticate on what will happen tomorrow, I’d like to turn to the summer of 1976. Coincidentally, I started writing this blog about a monthContinue reading “July 1976”
Category Archives: Small Acts of Kindness
Pick an Apple. Any Apple.
Apple picking has become a tradition in our family over the past 10 years. I’m so grateful that living in Greater Chicagoland has afforded us with the opportunity to visit some amazing apple orchards. Thanks goes to Aunt Amber. She’s been a driving force in getting us up early to drive an hour plus (almostContinue reading “Pick an Apple. Any Apple.”
Miss You Mom.
This was something Mom did right after the coffee was brewed. “It makes the coffee bitter if you let the grounds sit in the filter,” she used to say. I’m not convinced this is true, but what I do know is that it was a Small Act of Kindness (SAOK). For the time Mom livedContinue reading “Miss You Mom.”
We start in the middle. Again.
Like all good Romantic [that’s with a capital “R” as in Romanticism (1800 – 1850)] stories begin in the middle, they back up, for a good start, to the beginning. This blog has been a work in progress in my brain since January 2019. In the fall of 2018, my husband, Warren, found an idyllicContinue reading “We start in the middle. Again.”