A single woman in her 20s recently asked me the secret to a long and happy marriage. I thought it was cute she thinks my husband and I are happy. Next year we will be married 25 years and we have been through an awful lot together: unemployment, money worries,…
What little one doesn’t love a fort made out of sofa pillows on a dreary day?
So today this happened: Well, there was only one. And he wasn’t dancing. And he didn’t speak cockney. Not nighttime either. No nanny flying via umbrella. But, oh, the songs and the dancing! My mom loved when Dick Van Dyke danced with the animated penguins. I actually think that began…
On Saturday morning my husband was making his weekend To Do list in his phone and asked me if I had anything I needed him to get done. I asked him to create a season pass on TiVo for the new HBO series, Divorce. I then said, “Nothing better happen to…
On Saturday we needed to go to the post office to mail a package. As we pulled into the parking lot, I said to my husband, “I will go in.” This is unusual since my vision loss; when we are out and about and just running into a place, typically…
I have quite an amazing no-spill record in the almost four years of my vision loss, if I do say so myself. I remember early on I knocked a glass over but I also did that when I could see properly. I remember one job where my co-workers wouldn’t let…
Hanging a shower curtain is a pain in the aRMS (fooled ya, didn’t I?) and there is an added challenge when you can’t see too well. But it was time and so I ordered new liners, curtains and curtain rings and today was the day I would NOT put off…
A watched pot never boils nor does it fill the house with smoke. — Sister Rain
On Saturday we attended Parrot Palooza at the bird store where we purchase food and toys for Piper. It is a big, fun event that celebrates birds and their peeps. Upon entering the store, this was posted: Last night we took Piper to our avian vet for his annual checkup….
This weekend my husband and I pulled together some information to send to a local Civil War expert we had met In May and who had offered to look into two of my great-great-grandfathers who I believe were Union soldiers. This morning, using all the data we have collected, I…
