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Archive for May, 2009

The voice of my home state beckons and I hear her call.  In a few days, I’ll board a small plane and fly west toward Wisconsin. My siblings and their families all live there and there my mother rests eternally on a hillside overlooking the town. I’ll visit her, of course, to whisper a prayer, [...]

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Her name was Sophie. I’ve learned what I know of her through the generosity of distant cousins.   This picture is a precious gift from one of them.  She is the mother of my father’s father’s father – my great-great grandmother. A French Canadian, Sophie was born in Quebec in 1835.  She died in northern Minnesota [...]

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This past weekend, my husband and I visited Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA.  In no particular order, here are some pictures I took, and some thoughts I brought home. In writing, as in life, use your senses to the max. ~ He loves me…he loves me not…ah, he loves me… ~ This is the [...]

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