Archive for July, 2008
All I have to give.
While I was in the hospital last week, my daughters’ grandmother was admitted to a different hospital for hernia surgery. She never regained consciousness. She passed away yesterday.
Mama Nona was a shy Mexican farmgirl who lived in Illinois for almost fifty years. She didn’t speak any English and didn’t drive, but her close-knit family of [...]
Published by angelawd on July 21st, 2008 tagged Healing | 3 Comments »
The heart has its reasons.
For breakfast they give me a tiny bowl of Cheerios and a banana.
“Get used to it,” Joe says. “It’s good for your heart.”
When he came in this morning, he had tears in his eyes. Whatever plans he might have had for his week, or his marriage, it didn’t include visiting his young wife in [...]
Published by angelawd on July 18th, 2008 tagged Healing | 5 Comments »
Maybe you saw this coming.
She slings her duffle bag over her shoulder and opens the front door. Out of the corner of my eye I see her. I hold up one finger – wait – while I wrap up the call with my mother-in-law. Before I even speak to her, I know: she is leaving home. Again.
“Why are you [...]
Published by angelawd on July 17th, 2008 tagged Healing | 6 Comments »
Lawnmower Confession
Mom, if you’re reading, the statute of punishment limitations is up on this one.
Everyone else, just remember I wasn’t always the model of perfection you have before you today.
When I was a teen, I haaaaaated mowing the lawn. My parents claimed we lived on a 3-acre plot of land, but I don’t know [...]
Published by angelawd on July 15th, 2008 tagged My Ex-Life, Time Plus Tragedy Equals... | 4 Comments »
Things I thought about writing today
1. How that one guy (does he even have a name?) could possibly spend his marriage to Christie Brinkley looking at porn and boffing his 18-year-old assistant – and who hires an 18-year-old assistant, anyway?
2. The newspaper story I read about the police who arrested a man after a low-speed chase across front lawns in a riding [...]