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“This is it. This is her final journey home,” my husband said. For the past 24 hours, our phones had blown up with text messages from my father-in-law. My husband’s 94-year-old grandmother was in the hospital. The doctors had just made their diagnosis. This would be her journey to Heaven. She had told us for […]
Guest post by Susie Finkbeiner. Be sure to leave a comment on this post to be entered in a drawing for her new novel A Song of Home, third in a trilogy about a young girl named Pearl Spence set in the 1930’s Dustbowl era. When I was a kid my mom often played her […]
I stand in the kitchen and stare out my back window into our small backyard. I see the worn, wooden back fence and leaves and walnuts covering the now-brown grass. In my imagination, however, I see a tiny oasis filled with color: spring tulips in a rainbow of colors, happy daffodils smiling at the sun, […]
I sat on the treadmill, elbows resting on knees, fists supporting my head. Cold from the basement floor seeped through my knitted slippers, turning my feet numb. Numb. That’s how I felt. I faced two floor-to-ceiling metal shelves overflowing with stuff. A basket of mismatched knitting needles had spilled at my feet. Three tubs bulging […]
My husband walked around my car, hunched down on his knees, then stood up with a sigh. “You need tires. At least 2. Maybe 4.” He lightly kicked the one in front of him for extra emphasis. On the hour drive home from my grandma’s place that afternoon, the car had sounded unusually loud, and […]
“Mom, please, no, please don’t make me go. Those places make me sick to my stomach.” I begged and pleaded with my mom as she grabbed her purse and replied, “You’re going. Get in the car.” I wasn’t trying to be a whiny kid, but every time I stepped into a hospital or nursing home, […]
