Category Archives: love

Longing

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Penny Print This Post Print This Post

It’s not often I long to be young again.  My awkward years, coupled with my chubby years, joined by my anti-California-tan white transparent skin and my body’s aversion to rhythm producing a youth somewhat lacking in self confidence and very … Continue reading →

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Room for three

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Penny Print This Post Print This Post

The not-so-little baby pushed his way into my heart and lap.  The Bug, the oldest, composed and sang a song for us — You know I’m on to you, You know I’m on to you,  You’re stealing my heart from … Continue reading →

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Mother’s adventures

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Penny Print This Post Print This Post

You’ve heard the saying, “nothing ever turns out like you plan.” Nothing could be truer than the plans you make as a parent. I hadn’t planed to raise four young children in a single parent home.  I hadn’t planned to … Continue reading →

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Keeping in touch

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Penny Print This Post Print This Post

I love it when my grown children make an effort to reach out to me.  Most of the time I’m thinking they’d rather be sharing ideas with someone their own age.  And then magic happened this week.  I received calls or … Continue reading →

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Replaced by a washer

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Penny Print This Post Print This Post

Coco is my deeply convicted, not in a jail kind of way, child.  She is a router for lost causes with dark blue sorrowful eyes.  As a little girl, she protected broken items from being tossed out by collecting them in … Continue reading →

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Rekindle your iLove

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Penny Print This Post Print This Post

In a world where technology often seems to be stealing our social and language skills, the Kindle™, a wireless reading device read on a small illuminated screen has spurred a revived ferocity of reading.  Book clubs are springing up all … Continue reading →

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I am my father’s daughter

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Penny Print This Post Print This Post

I have more hair on my legs than on my head.  I enjoy a good hearty laugh more than chocolate.  (With my dad, it may have been a toss-up.)  I curse when I do plumbing.  I cry easily when something … Continue reading →

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Big plans

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Penny Print This Post Print This Post

When I was expecting my first born, I had lofty idealistic plans to be the perfect mom.  I’d be in tune with this child – knowing her every desire, fulfilling her every need, and understanding her every thought.  By the … Continue reading →

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For what it’s worth

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Penny Print This Post Print This Post

No one deserves a broken heart, unless maybe that kid who chased me home from school when I was in the second grade.  I don’t think I ever got one valuable smidgen of enlightenment from having a damaged heart, and I hate them once … Continue reading →

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If it’s not one thing, it’s another

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Penny Print This Post Print This Post

Remember the other day when nothing happened?  I have a feeling I’m in for a dry stretch of that happening any time soon again. Trying to maintain that carefree feeling, I awoke early and turned the ground over in my … Continue reading →

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