Category: Family
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Leaving the home
Calm and open to petting There was this big ol’ cat hanging out in the lobby of the facility my grandmother is located. This fella was the bright spot of the visit. My grandmother has stumped the doctors, but the prognosis is not good. Now begins the difficult conversations.
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Shopgirl
This entry is not a movie review I went with my mom and brother to see Shopgirl the other night. We had the theater to ourselves. The movie didn’t get in the way of spacing off and thinking up better dialog.
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Spices
Dean & Deluca have the best packaging I had a bowl of chili over at my mom’s house late this evening. Always a highlight having home cookin. She’s getting ready for a kitchen remodel in November and the TV is almost always tuned to HGTV. All these shows where they do everything in a just…
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My mom, the florist
Creating an arrangement After a tasty meal of corn on the cob, bar-b-que chicken, broccoli, and baked potato at my mom’s, I went up to check my weight on the scale in the bathroom. Not something I normally do, but since my pants fell off earlier, I was concerned I might be losing too much…
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Northside parade
The Ladies Auxiliary Lawnchair Brigade So this year’s Independence Day Parade in Northside seemed a bit light on the wacky side and a bit heavy on the politicians, but overall—thoroughly enjoyable. We didn’t wave as much or clap as hard for the Republicans. Though I admit there’s a certain tiresome antic about wrapping folks into…
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My grandmother’s birthday
And the building across the parking lot from the Olive Garden I gave her a tattered book from my shelves, A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson. I gave her some flowers too, but they paled in comparison to the lovely Hawaiian bunch from my brother. I should’ve taken a photo of those. We…
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A funeral
My uncle died on Saturday He was 59. Like his brother, my dad, his shortened life was another product of Cancer. He lived many of the past years with a portable oxygen set-up — alert, participating in the lives of his wife, children and grandchildren. I sense he was a kind man, but that knowledge…
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The holiday, bulleted
Two buck Chuck is $3.50 in Ohio THE NOT SO GOOD • The roads in Cincinnati are still horrible with snow • A car flipped just feet from me on the highway last night • My pipes froze • First Christmas without Dad • Never enough time to put everything together THE GOOD • My…
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Warm
Extra long sleeves If you ever met my mom, you’d be immediately jealous that she wasn’t your mom because she’s that neat. Okay, I’ll admit, there’s other great moms out there, but this one’s mine. Case in point: reaching back to high school, I would complain to her that there weren’t good flannel shirts anymore.…
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Thanksgiving
Cardinal A delicious day. A drive to Louisville with my mom, brother and grandma to my Aunt’s place for a mid-afternoon Thanksgiving meal. My cousins were in town on that side of the family and it was good to see them all. Spiffy dressers each one of them. I felt bad I’ve yet to get…