I face a new decade. I face a new series of ages in which I start with a 6 in the tens’ place. When I think about the “oughts” I realized that between the year 2000 and now:
***I fell in love for the first time since Wayne died.
***I got married.
***I became a widow again.
***All three […]

Today I took the kids out on the concrete area outside our school’s side door. It’s kind of nice because it is shaded and relatively clean for a concrete slab. And the weather was too beautiful to be inside. I gave them each a huge 36″ X 24″ sheet of newsprint, a big paint brush, […]