Our daughters truly have the luck of the Irish in their blood. On Saint Patrick’s Day, my husband and I celebrate the birthdays of two of our ancestors. We also celebrate our Irish roots on both sides of our family with traditional Irish food and drink. Celebrating our family’s Irish roots on Saint Patrick’s Day…
I’m a bit emotional writing about five generations of Texas women. My maternal grandmother is finally having surgery to fix her fractured shoulder on Monday. Hopefully, this will be the end of several weeks of pain for her and frustration for everyone involved. Celebrating five generations of Texas women But it’s made me realize, once again,…
A counselor once told me that my mother would be more “accessible” to me after she died than when she was in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease. I didn’t fully understand what she meant at the time. She thought I was going to be able to communicate with my dead mother? Yet, shortly after my mom died,…
