Posts Tagged With: family

Mr. Nestlehut

Every Friday he arrived, come late spring. Vintage pick-up rigged With 2 x 4′s and a canopy, The bed a warren of bins. He parked at the top of Our down-sloping driveway. I ran to greet him. My mother came slower. I loved the okra best, Fuzzy, frog-green spikes, Not at all appetizing. Who would [...]

Categories: 'bout me, family stories, Food and eating, memories, poetry | Tags: , , | 3 Comments

Poem Without Words

Categories: 'bout me, 'round Colorado, boys, grandkids, Love | Tags: , , , , | 2 Comments

Simple Supper

If I had thought of this sooner, I’d have done this for the most recent Smackdown.  As it is, this one is definitely going into the “keeper” box.  I’ve been trying to cook simple things, more veggie-oriented things, working on enhancing flavor rather than using a lot of heavy spice.  One, to help G’s acid [...]

Categories: 'bout me, 'round Colorado, cooking, Food and eating, inspiration, Pictures | Tags: , , , | 4 Comments

Sacred

Today I worshiped at the altar of late summer bounty. After my work shift was over, before I needed to start on the next freelance project, I went outside with bowl and garden scissors to pick the peppers off the five or six plants we have in the front yard.  They were bursting with beautiful [...]

Categories: 'bout me, 'round Colorado, blessings, Food and eating, memories, truth, writing, Yard and garden | Tags: , , , , , | 2 Comments

The Mother’s Speech

Yesterday was my mother’s birthday, so of course I must tell a story about her. Her birthday was always a great cause for celebration and she would haunt me if I didn’t. My youngest brother joined the Army right out of high school.  My parents weren’t all that happy about it, surmising (rightly) that he [...]

Categories: being grumpy, family stories, life history, memories, parenting, writing | Tags: , , , | 2 Comments

30 DOTB – Day 26 – A Time When I Wanted It Over

This will be long. Feel free to not read. October 1999.  I was starting what would be my last year at the HMO, in a critical position that meant I had to work in Denver. So, 4 days a week I stayed up there and came home Thursday night and went back in the wee [...]

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Co-Grandparenting And Its Pitfalls

From time to time, G and I talk about what our lives might have been like if we had met earlier. We speculate about the usual things–would we have traveled earlier, thought about having kids, etc.  However, over the years, I have come to realize a couple of things: 1) We met exactly when we [...]

Categories: being grumpy, family drama, lesbian life, Outdoorsy, Rants | Tags: , , | 10 Comments

Time-out For Fun

Just a few quick shots of some things we’ve been doing… How we start the day in Colorado! On the way to the top of Pike’s Peak… End of the line… …and into the clouds… Sister J is ready for anything! We’ve been having a great visit.  She goes back Thursday morning and we have [...]

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The Frantic Begins

Yesterday, G’s sister, the one who hasn’t been to visit us yet, said she might come out for a visit in September.  SEPTEMBER.  Right now, G is upstairs frantically vacuuming, bleaching the shit of out stuff, and already beginning to fret over “how things look” and if everything is “clean”.  She is just barely coming [...]

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