For as long as I can remember, I have gone down to the Gulf Coast of Texas in August. It was an easy drive, only about an hour, from Victoria where I was raised. Usually we went to Rockport; we would have a picnic on… Read More
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All posts tagged “mental-health”
Reunited
My 60th high school reunion was this month down in Victoria where I grew up. It was held at the recently-renovated Club Westerner, a favorite dance hall for generations, where we as teens went for live music and two-stepping almost every weekend throughout the year—… Read More
A Mother’s Day
I was out shopping this weekend, and oh my! Traffic was outrageous, stores jammed, and check-out lines ridiculously long. How could I have possibly forgotten about the commercial bonanza of Mother’s Day, when floral sales alone almost eclipse those of #1 Valentine’s Day. Even… Read More
We All Scream…
“I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!” My Mother loved ice cream. Of course, living in South Texas with the unbearable, unrelenting heat, who wouldn’t? But for her, a member of the post-War generation, the sudden ready availability and popularity… Read More
Wait!
I have been screaming “Wait!” for almost as many years as I have known my husband. I tell him that one day I will have WAIT engraved on his tombstone (and I will mean it). He is a died-in-the-wool New Yorker, who walks fast, talks fast,… Read More
Ash Wednesday
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust… Ashes in the form of a cross on the forehead identifies penitential believers and marks the beginning of the forty day period of prayer, fasting, and sacrifice Catholics and other Christian denominations know as Lent. The ashes are a… Read More
Sweet Hearts
Growing up, I went to a Catholic girls’ school K through 12. The whole school was housed in one giant brick building with a huge playground on a full city block. The first floor housed the elementary school and extended out into a large gymnasium;… Read More
A New Year in “Nots”
I have a t-shirt that reads, “Sorry I’m late, but I didn’t want to come.” Every time I wear this shirt out in public, I get two or three people who come up to me with some version of, “OMG. Your shirt. That’s my… Read More
Gratitude
So, here we are at Thanksgiving, a time when everyone is supposed to count their blessings around the dinner table. The attitude of the season is gratitude and, in truth, while the search for reasons to give thanks might be difficult when times are tough,… Read More
That Time of Year
It’s what I have come to call “That time of year” again — the late fall days in November between holidays when daylight savings time ends and the twinkle of Christmas lights begin to illuminate the darkness. The year is winding down, the New Year… Read More
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