Tag: family
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A Dozen Cousins
I cherish my cousins; all 12 of them! They range in age from 70s to 40s but each one of them is unique, important and so loved. Our respective parents were siblings and we were blessed to live in close proximity to one another. Since three of the families farmed together, we saw our cousins…
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What’s in a Name?
To complete that famous quote… “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.” – by William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet. “Names are powerful things. They act as an identity marker and a kind of map, locating you in time and geography. More than that,…
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Grow Your Own Happiness
I love my jade plants! Crassula ovata, commonly known as jade plant, lucky plant, money plant or money tree, is a succulent plant with small pink or white flowers that is native to the KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa, and Mozambique; it is common as a houseplant worldwide. – Wikipedia My original jade…
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School Days
I like to say that I’m older than Kindergarten. There was no Kindergarten class in my local elementary school as I was approaching school age. However, I was enrolled in a unique class – aptly referred to as January Class. It began in January of the year before the typical Grade One class was to…
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Comfort Food
In the cold of these winter months, my heart and my stomach calls for comfort food. The Oxford Dictionary defines comfort food as food that provides consolation or a feeling of well-being, typically any with a high sugar or other carbohydrate content and associated with childhood or home cooking. Similarly, Wikipedia tells us that comfort food is food that…
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The Great Debates
I really am a peacemaker at heart and in my mind I always have been, despite what others may say. I like everyone to get along but people will have their personal views, likes and dislikes, in various ways that are beyond my control. I accept that. Coke or Pepsi – What causes our preferences…
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Letters to Kate
The task of writing comes with unique challenges. For some, their words flow like a babbling brook, meandering slowly through serene landscapes or choppy and churning up splashy gurgles as water that dances and cascades over the rocks in its wake. Not so, for me. My own voice cannot keep up to the ‘splashy gurgles’…
