I found the sweetest quote of Mother Teresa’s recently, “We can’t do big things, only small things, with an immense amount of love”. » read more »
Archive for 2011
The Crashing of Antlers
Posted on February 28, 2011
Hi Everybody,
Ah the subject of kids again….adult kids….again. I just thought I’d share a thought I had a while back, which occurs to me often. Someone told me the other day that when adult lions, from a year old on, meet their parents in the jungle, they no longer recognize their parents. (Now there’s a thought, no more lending the car keys, or kids home from college turning your home into a frat house for the holidays, with pizzas delivered, in vast quantities, at 2 am). » read more »
Filed Under Family, Getting Along, Relationships | 9 Comments
John Traina
Posted on February 22, 2011
Since I always seem to share with you what goes on in my life, I am sharing with you now sad family news for us. My ex-husband, John Traina, father of eight of my nine children, passed away suddenly on February 1st, » read more »
Filed Under Family | 63 Comments
Valentine’s Day
Posted on February 14, 2011
Now there’s a big subject. A BIG subject. Valentine’s Day. And people think I know about these things. I’m not so sure I do. I’ve told some of you before, I got off to a rocky start with Valentine’s Day, I was the only girl in 3rd grade who didn’t get a Valentine. It sucked. But I was only 8 then, so at least there was some excuse. And since then, I had one marriage proposal » read more »
Filed Under Holidays | 4 Comments
Chanel Haute Couture Show in Paris
Posted on February 1, 2011
Hi Everybody,
Well, for you fashion fans, like me, it’s that time of year again. The high fashion, ‘haute couture’ shows in Paris, which are becoming fewer and fewer and rarer and rarer. Ten or more years ago, haute couture week (twice a year) in Paris was a 7 to l0 day event, with 3 to 5 shows a day, and it was a BIG deal for people who love fashion. » read more »
Filed Under Current Events, Fashion | 4 Comments
Will the Real Danielle Steel Please Stand Up??? (Remember that One???)
Posted on January 25, 2011
Hi Everybody,
Well, I’ve just had an exotic ‘modern’ techno experience. I discovered yesterday that there are people out there in Internet-land » read more »
Filed Under Uncategorized | 10 Comments
21st Century
Posted on January 20, 2011
My head is spinning a bit, and I had to share it with you. I think I’ve mentioned to all of you before that I am deeply, powerfully, and sincerely technologically challenged. I write on a 1946 manual typewriter that seems modern to me. I paid $20.00 for it a million years ago, at the beginning of my career, » read more »
Filed Under Uncategorized | 13 Comments
A Big Subject: Mutual Respect Between Parents and Adult Kids
Posted on January 10, 2011
I have often said that being the parent of adult kids is an art, and not always so easy to achieve. But I am beginning to think that being the adult children of one’s parents is not so easy either, and also an art.
I recently laughed with a friend about how I used to feel still 10 years old when I visited my father, as an adult, and often did and said things that I couldn’t believe I’d just done. Who said that? Sometimes I couldn’t believe it was me. They treated me like a child, and sometimes in spite of myself, and being all grown up, I acted like a child around my parents. Ugh. The friend I was talking to about it had recently » read more »
Filed Under Communication, Family, Kids, Relationships | 75 Comments
The Aftermath of Christmas
Posted on January 4, 2011
Hi Everybody,
Wow!!! The aftermath of Christmas…..I love the holidays, and all the cozy, childlike traditions we embrace. The old decorations we hang on the tree from bygone years, » read more »
Filed Under Holidays | 9 Comments