As a child of the 60s I was lucky to grow up in a world without technology at my finger tips. I was doubly lucky to grow up in a joint family with my Grandma ruling the roost, with loving uncles and aunts and of course, Mom. Our family was scattered…
Posts tagged as “Love”
Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad. A Great dad. I’ve never known my dad. He abandoned my Mom when she was pregnant with me. You’d think that would embitter my Mom towards all men, right? But no, she was an angel. Not only…
April 15 is my Mom’s birthday. I am particularly happy that the alphabet for today is M for Mother, Mi to me. She would have been 69 today. By now you know how close I was to my Mom. As much as she influenced me when she was alive, she continues…
Okay, so one of my favorite phrases is “life is too short to…” (fill in the blanks). I keep saying I like to try everything once because I don’t like to write anything off without personally experiencing it. Also, over the last few years, I believe I’ve grown wiser (oh c’mon,…
Forgive and Forget – Is it possible? I’ve been thinking about the “forgive and forget” advice my Mom used to constantly gave me. I’ll tell you why. It is funny how life comes a full circle and people who treated you badly suddenly do an about turn and decide to be…
“I am because we are” The Ubuntu philosophy: “I am what I am because of who we all are.” I connected with Michelle Wallace of Writer in Transit last year. Then we were both part of the Tree of Life collaborative writing challenge orchestrated by Samantha Redstreake Geary. We interacted often…
I am a believer, mostly, in good things, the Universe, positive thinking…you know what I mean. While I am optimistic, I also tend to be realistic. My Mom would always laugh at me when I wanted proof for something. She’d simply place her hand on her heart and say, if it…