DD is obsessed with dressing her brother for Halloween. She has suggested several costumes. She is three. He is sixteen. For example: Mama, for Halloween I will be a princess. Bubba can wear the fireman costume. It is too big for me. And he is a boy. Maybe he can be the doctor. But I [...]
DD is sick today. She says she is sick every day. So I took her temperature, found it normal and put her in the car. Very close to the school and work she began projectile vomiting. omg. I spent the day cleaning her, the car, the carseat, and everything that was in the back seat [...]
When my mother was alive, I sent her postcards. I felt that I should do everything in my power to maintain a relationship with her, short of giving up my dignity. If I sent her a postcard she did not write back berating me, the way she berated me on the phone. So I went [...]
This is most unusual. Nobody died. And nothing horrible has happened. He called to get Grandmaman’s phone number, to thank her for something she sent to his daughter. This has never happened before. By never, I actually mean never, not rarely.
Grandmaman called to tell me that her hair is falling out. All of it. Oh the joy of chemotherapy. I asked her is she upset. She said of course she is upset. She has always been proud of her hair! I said, well, I didn’t know if she would be upset. When my mother’s hair [...]
