You see me, you really see me!

Usually I don’t plan out or edit my blogs. This time what I want to write about requires some explanation so I’ve had to think this through. I don’t share this preface to make anyone feel sorry for me or to martyr myself.  But, rather, to demonstrate how incredible actions of incredible cousins gave meContinue reading “You see me, you really see me!”

Happy Birthday Mary (Minnie) aka Grandma Allan C!

It’s been a minute since I’ve written a blog. Life is messy and chaotic and busy these days which doesn’t exactly lend itself to time for …well anything, really, least of all reflection.   But today I was sitting at mass with Mom, looking around the Cathedral I was raised in and found myself waxing poeticContinue reading “Happy Birthday Mary (Minnie) aka Grandma Allan C!”

Big Brother

Bringing up the ‘family distancing’ earlier this week has me focusing on my family more than ever. It’s been rolling around in my brain for days! I have never understood siblings that stop speaking for years at a time or some such nonsense. I have been gifted only one sibling, a big brother, Brian…and asContinue reading “Big Brother”