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Piercing Insights: My Encounter with a Rusty Nail and the 8 Lessons It Left Behind

Recently, I had an encounter with a rusty nail. It was about 5:30 am. I was walking from my front door to my car with sandals on, having just dropped my niece at the bus stop. I went into the house and then remembered that I had left my phone in the car. Back toContinue reading “Piercing Insights: My Encounter with a Rusty Nail and the 8 Lessons It Left Behind”

Spaghetti vs. Squashetti spaghetti squash – my ‘noodle’ of choice

Spaghetti with meat sauce is one of my favorite foods. It is one of the few dishes that taste better as leftovers than when first prepared. As I have gotten older, I find myself giving as much weight to how a food makes me feel as to how it tastes. This led me to seekContinue reading “Spaghetti vs. Squashetti spaghetti squash – my ‘noodle’ of choice”

How would you caption this picture?

I snapped this picture while sitting in Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. I watched the suitcase fall off of the baggage cart en route to the airplane. It did not seem that the driver of the baggage tug noticed that suitcase had fallen off the cart. He kept going and there was the suitcaseContinue reading “How would you caption this picture?”

On Parenting: “Don’t love them too much.”

We recently celebrated my daughter’s twentieth birthday. When she was a baby I remember my Mom saying “don’t love her too much”. I didn’t understand what she was saying then. As a matter of fact it used to annoy me quite a bit. But as I have gotten older, I’ve come to understand that sheContinue reading “On Parenting: “Don’t love them too much.””

On The Loss of My Mother: Through Grief I’m Learning How to Live

It never occurred to me that the first post on my blog would be about my Mother’s passing. My Momma, Ethel C. Lewis, aka Mom, Grandma, Ms. Lewis, Ethel Catherine, Great Grandma, Aunt Ethel, Mother Lewis, ‘Da Boss’ passed away on November 28, 2020. To be honest, I absolutely never thought she would leave us.Continue reading “On The Loss of My Mother: Through Grief I’m Learning How to Live”