A Song Not Scored For Breathing

Holding a baby is a very healing pastime. Dearest one and I took turns on Sunday doing just that. Couple that with good, deep conversation w...

"Today's gonna be a good day." That was the lyric going through my head this morning as I woke up. I'd made my way to the...

" If you go this way you only have to turn right, if you go the other way you have to make two lefts." I pause and then realize wh...

"You need to find some kind of leisure activity to do together." So said my treatment counselor nearly 3 years ago. I looked at h...

It is just past dusk as I type and I can hear the last of the birds singing in the trees. I think of them as being one big family like The W...

"See? I can change." I say it with a grin because sometimes I get so proud of myself over very little things. "And you're...

I'm typing to the whine of the rug shampooer going in the livingroom. We were both working at it until dearest one muttered that it was ...

"...to take you as my awfully wedded husband...." I was a teenager when I said those words 28 years ago today. It was on a Friday,...

"I obeyed him, but I don't always. My newly married daughter said I wasn't being a good example to her when I disobeyed him. I ...

"Will you marry me?" Not many women can say they've been asked that 27 times in their life, but I can. Before the day is over ...

Dearest one and I went for a drive last night. to see the countryside that is on the cusp of spring. We went in his pick up. When we were ne...

"Don't talk to me, I'm almost in that place, in between waking and sleeping." I say it rather snarkily. If I go backwards...

"I'm not used to you being impatient." We're sitting in a portrait studio, waiting to choose pictures of dearest one in hi...

It's dearest one's birthday today. Next year will be the big five oh for him. It freaks him out. He doesn't feel that old. He do...

I've written before about how I don't like to be alone at night. Being alone at night is when I am most tempted to throw my abstinen...

Twenty seven years ago there was no walk down the aisle, no wedding dress, no wedding rings. Instead we walked up to the Justic of the Peac...

I am grateful that most nights I sleep right through the night. That makes this night of insomnia easier to accept. I am grateful that the w...

I'm going to crawl into an empty bed soon. Dearest one is away. He works way too early tomorrow to make the 80km trip to town plus pull ...

"I don't want to make any mistakes." "You're of the wrong species then." ~ from the movie PS I Love You I was mo...

Dearest one and I wandered together from place to place in town yesterday. At one point we found ourselves in a furniture store visiting wit...