The Rose of the Wind

Actually, I survived to get to the pen show. Aunt Peggy didn’t have a fever with her bout of illness, which was the main reason we...

Drive-by to update. Things are going as well as can be expected. I ran around like a nut the rest of the week after mom passed, and on...

Wow. I just read the last update I posted. Last Saturday, wasn’t it? It feels like a year ago or more. I have to sit down and really...

Been a long past couple of weeks, so thought I’d catch up with a quick post. Mom is still in the hospital and not improving. Every time...

Yeah, late again. New Year’s Eve was fine, very relaxing, but the day after New Year’s, things began to come unwound. Place K called to...

Holidays got me again. Hope you all have had a great December! The weather here in Tennessee on the whole has been pretty good; slightly...

I was going to update a couple of days ago, but last time I didn’t mention that my right hand was giving me some grief. The night before...

It’s been a good while since I actually had a holiday. As in, a day off, spent in enjoyable activities with family and/or friends. For...

I wasn’t sure if I’d be going with my family on our little gambling mini-vacation, because as of the day before, mom was still at New...

Just a quick drive-by to say hello and share a couple of things! Did you watch the royal wedding last weekend? Yes, I did. Please, nobody...

I’m still having these weird mood swings. Friday I got to go to the local flea market for the first time in several years…and spend all...

It’s happened. Sort of. Kind of. Not really, to be honest, which is why I haven’t been able to blog in so long. Mom was scheduled to move...

Operation Place K is moving along. I had a brief but intense freak-out on Monday when I called mom’s doctors to make sure they were...

Okay, I did it. After my last blog post, I called and set up an appointment for a nurse from Place K to come and evaluate mom for memory...

Among science fiction fans, there’s a thing known as the con crud. Invariably when you go to a sci-fi convention, somebody there has some...

Birthdays! The older we get, the less we want to deal with them, it seems. At least some folks are that way. Me, I try to be thankful I...

So. Christmas was… better than I hoped, not especially good, but not as bad as it could have been. How’s that for damning with faint...

It seems like so much of Christmas, at least in our culture, is composed of memories. I'm guessing folks who celebrate other holidays,...

Mom was being rather introspective earlier today. Still confused as heck, but introspective. She was asking questions like "Do I do...

Sorry I'm so late! Mom has been very challenging the past couple of weeks. Her psychiatrist started her on a trial of a new medication...