The Beginning

Blogging started for me as a venue for writing a memoir, of sorts. I’ve spent more time lately on other things, but the memoir is still important to me. So, here is how it starts.

Elaine

It has been almost a year since my mother-in-law passed away. I spent some time this weekend talking with two of her sons about life, and their mom, and their first Christmas without her. In honor of all that, I decided to repost another item from the old blog, about my last visit with her.

For someone who was as difficult and aggravating as she could often be — it’s been surprising how much I’ve missed her.

Thanksgiving

What with all the turkey roasting and pie baking, I didn’t have time to write anything new. So, with apologies to those of you who’ve been following for a while, here is an updated version of last Thanksgiving’s post.

Centennial

I decided to edit some of the posts from my old blog and copy them over here, as I have time (or run out of things to write about, as the case may be.) For readers who have been good enough to follow me through this transition, I’ll make sure to note which posts are repeats so you can skip them. Or, you can tell me whether my editing has made them any better.

Since this month, my Aunt Margaret would have been 100 years old, it seemed right to start with her story. This was originally in three parts, so it’s a bit long, but it’s tough to sum up an amazing 96 year life too briefly.