Month: December 2016
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Goodbye until we Meet Again
Goodbye Homeland, Bittersweet goodbye. Good bye Buttes outside my childhood bedroom window. Goodbye golden days, harvested fields, amber leaves, geese that fly by… Good bye Mom and her kitchen of home made goodness. Chocolate chip cookies, sweet bread…
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Hairstory History
Several years ago my five younger nieces started cutting their beautiful thick hair, Molly had hers cut to chin level. As my hair was short at the time, and hadn't been long since my late twenties, I came up…
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The Canal Behind my Mother’s Home
As the last rays streamed down creating a masterpiece on the still water of the canal I was was transfixed on how an ordinary canal running behind my mother's home became a work of art. The canal's dirt…
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Fueling of the Soul
Mystical Morning Call photo: The call of the morning, Northern California. Early this morning as the sun was adding gold to the sky my youngest brother Zane called, "The geese are here, the field is white, if you want…
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Some Photos of our Place in Cassis
The last details await my return. Here are two photos that Rene sent me of the kitchen. The first thing I have to do when I return to France, besides kissing up French Husband, is pick out…
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Family Days Gone By
My stay in Willows is coming to an end, and with that a bittersweetness seeps into the cracks of days gone by, many days gone by, and the days to come. Coming and going has a way of raising…