Category: Introduction

  • My how they’ve grown

    My how they’ve grown

    When my children, Samantha, Abigail, and Meredith were young, we lived in Spokane, close to my mother and stepfather and three of my aunts and uncles. On the first Friday of every month, we had a potluck dinner. What made the event unique was its setting. Aunt Lois and Uncle Lawrence (an architect) owned a…

  • And so it begins

    There is another blog somewhere out there with my name on it. “Honestly Now.” I wrote irregularly for three years while my husband was struggling with kidney failure, managing peritoneal dialysis, requiring frequent hospitalizations, and finally succumbing to a heart attack and dying on June 29, 2017. I wrote to let family and friends, colleagues…

  • Hello World!

    The learning curve is high. Hoping to get the hang of managing a website, writing a blog, and helping people find my writing.