Published in Crow’s Feet

·1 hour ago

Not My Mother’s Dinner Table

How politeness ebbed and flowed and the plates no longer matched — When my mother set the table for dinner for guests, it was with matching plates and crystal water glasses. I didn’t have more than a few plates the same after not too many years of parenting. Purchasing another set of different plates seemed to be the way of it. Eventually…

Aging

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2 hours ago

Captain’s Log, Day Seven

May 25, 2022 — Captain’s log, day seven of our first real retirement voyage. Although we aren’t totally retired. And except that I am not the captain. And I’m putting this here on May 26th instead of May 25th because we had no wifi at all for a couple of days. We decided to…

Boating

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Published in Know Thyself, Heal Thyself

·2 hours ago

The Dream

When sleep crosses into your world — My dream crossed the tangible with the crazy, the world I lived in with one that was strange but still had touches of my reality. Carol and Dan were there, the couple we had just met the day before. …

Know Thyself Heal Thyself

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3 hours ago

Captain’s Log, Day Six

May 24, 2022 — Captain’s log, day six of our first real retirement voyage. Although we aren’t totally retired. And except that I am not the captain. And I’m putting this here on May 26th instead of May 24th because we had no wifi at all for a couple of days. Weird, I know. …

Cruising

3 min read

Published in Crow’s Feet

·2 days ago

Where Did I Come From?

Who really knit me? — How do we know our stories? I know where I was born; the hospital still exists and the town is still there. The house I went home to from the hospital as a newborn sits nestled between the same two homes that were there when I lived there. …

Aging

3 min read

2 days ago

Captain’s Log, Day Five

May 23, 2022 — Captain’s log, day five of our first real retirement voyage. Although we aren’t totally retired. And except that I am not the captain. Today in response to the sunshine I hauled summerish clothes out of their bag that had been stored under the aft settee. …

Cruising

2 min read

3 days ago

Captain’s Log, Day Four

May 22, 2022 — Captain’s log, day four of our first real retirement voyage. Although we aren’t totally retired. And except that I am not the captain. So remember I said something yesterday about disasters happening in threes? Well the number three came today. True story. We got up at a leisurely pace and…

Boating

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Published in The Memoirist

·4 days ago