Recovered original email. Body preserved verbatim. Hi Danielle, Got your Christmas card at my San Luis Obispo house today, just wanted to say that I really appreciate the thought 🙂 And I enjoyed reading about your lives far, far away from Ca. On this end I’m graduating with my Barch this June, and with an… Continue reading

Recovered family correspondence — January 8, 2007. I thought a lot about Lani the last couple of weeks. One of the thoughts that made me laugh was, God must have wanted someone to make brownies at 3 in the morning, as she was wont to do. Another was, she must have known she had a… Continue reading

Why God made Moms — BRILLIANT answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions:Why did God make mothers?1. She’s the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.2. Mostly to clean the house.3. To help us out of there when we were getting born.How did God make mothers?1. He used dirt,… Continue reading

A book I listened to lately said it takes a year and a day to mourn the loss of someone you love. I don’t know if I buy into that or not, but here we are a year later. My heart still aches, but it’s true that life does go on. But I doubt I’ll… Continue reading

Recovered family correspondence — December 30, 2006. Thank you so much! Ara Belle was one of a kind, and I’m so glad that you are doing all this work to get her story told. She was a real trooper when I announced that I was having a baby, at age 42, without a husband. She… Continue reading

Since I’ve chronicled so much of my battle so far I thought I’d give you an update. We’ve been playing musical meds since my “incident” with Lamictal in March. I’ve exhausted all serotonin drugs so my Doc and I decided to try the drug family first introduced in the 1960s — which do work on… Continue reading

To eBay. I even have my own store. It’s come in handy as I’ve helped to break up some of Mom’s “collections” and the other items we’ve outgrown (toys, clothes, nursery stuff, VHS tapes — you name it.) And my in laws have done pretty well too! It just goes to prove one woman’s trash… Continue reading

We’re on our way — the second leg of our journey is drawing to a close and so far, so good — dare I write it? Morgan is passed out across the seats (the benadryl finally kicked in and getting up at 4:30 this morning helps too.) Tyler took a power nap as we landed… Continue reading

Can’t take credit for it, but like it nonetheless … Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of… Continue reading

As least 50 boxes of assorted stuff have come in from Utah throughout the year — and in every single box at least one item has been broken — several beyond repair — but it’s the ones that have been insured that are sure to come in at least 100 pieces. And making an insurance… Continue reading