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Jarrett’s Rose/Michael’s Eyes
Written Late 1990’s The January sun was warm upon my back as I drank my morning coffee and contemplated the new garden area. Its design was still in process, but I had already laid out a wagon wheel design in the center with...
Granddaughter’s Short Essay on Her Great-Grandmother, Her Bisabuela, to Her 8th Grade Spanish Class
My second granddaughter, for her 8th Grade Spanish class, was assigned to write a short essay about someone she knew who had passed away. She wrote about her great-grandmother, and her essay illustrates the bonds of intergenerational love and the power of words spoken in the past by someone now...
Happy 90th Something Birthday to My Second Mom
Happy 90th Something Birthday to My Second Mom December 1, 2020 Lorraine, Happy, happy birthday! Is this 93? Whatever the year, it is certainly a milestone of life that many do not make and a milestone that we are so happy to see for you, and for us, for the miles traveling along with...
Treasures in My Life – An Old Tea Leaf Strainer
I collect and keep treasures, I always have. Many I have to this day, a few, taken away from me, have disappeared, others were only mine physically for a short while, but remain and continue to grow within me in worth and beauty, some day by day. Most of the treasures are treasures to...
In Memory of My Uncle Mingo
March 2020 (Photo of Uncle Mingo at his 100th Birthday Celebration in March 2019) My uncle, Domingo Orozco, the last of six siblings and all their spouses, the last of his whole generation within our family, passed away one day shy of being 101 years old, a long life by any standard, and one lived...
One Day, It Will Only Be One
March 6, 2019 Just fainting she saidNot eaten for a while Serving dinner at church Finished, awaiting her own filet mignon An extra Sitting high on a stool Felt faint, hand outstretched Security camera caught it all Yes, outstretched armThen outReally whacked head on floorThey saidOuch Able to...
Sunday Morning, October 11, 2020
Sunday Morning, October 11, 2020 This Sunday morning, when I began to drink my hot cup of tea, heated up from the evening before in the microwave, always a horror to my daughters, I looked out the window to the street already lit by the morning sunlight, and as I collected my thoughts to prepare...
The Emperor of Japan
The Emperor of Japan When I worked for the IRS, I loved being selected for short work details to our National Office in Washington D.C. On one such detail, in June 1994, I was working in D.C. at the IRS building at 1111 Constitution Ave. And one afternoon, instead of just leaving by the side...