Big Picture

Every once in a while I check the rear-view mirror of my life and am amazed and delighted at the life I have had – and have today, even though it is not at all the life I was expecting or planning for…I hope you can say the same.

These three humans have changed a great deal in the last 50+ years. LOL We don’t always know what we’re doing or where we’re going, but we stay connected to each other and the siblings and cousins that came later. We just do it (most of us anyway) not even a question for most of us.

I don’t blog every day, but I am learning every day. I try to share the best and worst of those lessons here, with you.

~R.

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a lens for my perfectly flawed life

What Brings Joy CHANGES as I go…

Today I was invited to join and participate in a group for Caregivers for oncology patients. Even though my King has a ton of issues – most of them come from the reality that he his missing a piece of his brain, which had to be removed along with the oliodendroglioma in 2010.

I was a daughter first

…once she entered the Facebook universe, even Zuckerberg couldn’t tell us apart. FB defaulted all pictures of me to her profile

Maybe I Can’t Be Trusted

I, like many other human beings, get a great deal of direction for my life out of a book, one important book. In that book I have learned about living a principled life, the necessity of serving others and that so much of my suffering has been and still is self-induced. I think I would …

Speak Up Ladies

I’m So Fucking Mad

“It’s not fair!”. Dad said, “Sissy, life isn’t fair.” – OMG you would have thought he shot our dog.