On Valentines Day, some years ago… my husband asked me to write our love story. He loved it. Let’s see how it sits with you. All memories are filtered through my personal lens through which I see people and life. I make no claim my view is anything more than my own. My experience, not […]
Come along grief, I’m still learning from you.
Meet one of my favorite things in the world. This is a cooker, welded by my dad in the late 80s, early 90s. He started cooking crawfish for my birthday when I was 15. I didn’t like crawfish at the time, but he would simply say ‘sometimes it’s about feedin’ people little’n’. To a spoiled […]
For the last 2 years, I’ve gotten a little sad around my birthday. Last year I was sad thinking about me, as a baby, in a hospital for 5 days before anyone ever picked me up. I found comfort in knowing I was loved and I belonged to someone during that time, but it made […]
I process through words. Read if it is helpful… DO NOT READ if your anxiety rises every time you see the word CORONAVIRUS. The empty shelves in my favorite grocery store told a story louder than I could articulate March 12, 2020. The Coronavirus was here and everything was changing at a pace my world […]
My mom always had something to say. Even when she had the emergency in Fall 2017 that would mark her last year of life, she had SO much to say, we had to sedate her in order to Careflight her 4 hours to Houston. The reality of her not speaking the first 12 hours I […]
My mom always knew how to wear make-up, clothes, and accessories. She was known as ‘Weazer’ to those closest to her and my friends always called her Mama Anne. Her heart was huge, and her love was overbearing. We had a rough decade or 2, but I know that I am the luckiest adopted daughter […]
Often, there are things that need to be written down before they become etched in stone in us… 1 Year ago, marked the journey through my mom’s last days here on this side of eternity. I knew I wanted to take a photo journey back through her days as a way to process… no need […]
It All Counts 