Annmarie

I am not sure why the following memories came to my mind recently.  They all are of the same person who was part of mine and my son’s father’s life very many years ago.  Some of the memories are amusing, some were not.  Having lived through so many different (for lack of description) venues in […]

As I have posted in several of my other stories, I take words at their original face value meaning.  The other day a phrase popped into my mind. “This is the first day of the rest of your life”.  Anyone who has made a mistake in their life that might have caused more than minor

Was there ever a time in your life when it felt like you might have been sleeping for years, or maybe just been on another planet? Strange question right?    Well, that is what it seemed like to me a year or so ago.  That big box store I mentioned in a few of my

My 13-year-old son and I had been living in a suburb of a southern city for almost a year.  We had moved down there from a small town in the Northeast to be closer to family after struggling to make ends meet following a divorce from his father.   We stayed with one of my

As I have said in an earlier post, I am a word person. I try to take certain phrases and implement them into my life as they are written or said.  An example is one that I heard many years ago, ”Take what you need and leave the rest.” That one was recited to me

I am often amazed at how much a lot of the old time adages can still apply to this ever quickening pace of our country.   What amazes me even more is if you went around your community and asked what that saying meant you could literally see a dividing line start to form.  Older

I don’t know what time it was when I woke up.  It was still dark out.  All except for this soft glow of all different colors coming from the stairway.   Suddenly, I was wide awake!  At long last it was Christmas morning!  I laid there at first just staring towards the stairs because I

Have I touched a life today? That’s the first question we as a nation should ask ourselves when we have made it through yet another chaotic, stressed out day.   The question of course should be asked in a positive way.  If every American citizen, whether born in this country or not, would just ask

How is it these days that a single individual can spend their entire life working towards perfecting their performance at a company, using an ingrained theme of “what’s good for the company overall”, and not be remembered for it?  How can that all go away in a matter of a few recently-held meetings?   Having

Being a single parent for the majority of my son’s life, I found myself lacking in a few areas that would help him grow into a fine young man.  The unconditional love and acceptance of a mom was one of those qualities.  Mom? Mother? What was that?? Just words to me. I never had one,