Category My Husband
Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign
When I read the prompt for this week’s photo challenge, to post something “foreign”, this picture immediately came to mind. A relative of my husband took this picture when various members of the family were staying in a refugee camp in Thailand in the early 1980’s. They had fled from Laos, and were hoping to […]
What We Found in the Backpack
You never know what you’re going to find when you go through your child’s backpack at the end of the day. Most of the time, I find spelling lists, study guides, a planner, and some textbooks for homework. L. is in third grade, so sometimes there are some random doodles and prizes from the class […]
“She’s Warming Up to Me…”
“She’s warming up to me,” said my husband, V., to me the other night, speaking of our nearly three-year-old daughter. Is this a strange thing for a father to say about his own little girl, for whose life he has been present since she entered the world? Strange, but I totally understood what he meant. Both […]
Tennis, Anyone?
Just as running has a special place in my heart and a lengthy history in my life, tennis and I go even farther back. I went for my first real “run” when I was about 8, but I started taking tennis lessons at the age of 5. It was love at first hit, you could […]
Hurricane Day
All my adult life, I’ve had what I call occasional “dizzy spells”. One moment, all will be fine, and the next moment, it’s like some giant hand took the ground below me and tilted it quickly one way and then the other, leaving me with a spinning, unsettled sensation in my head. Sometimes the feeling […]
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