Trying to catch up I've been trying to make sense out of the mess that is my world right now. Apparently, I've missed more than I thought I did, and people are unhappy with me for commitments that I forgot to cancel …

Wish My sister and I spent the weekend together, and it was not one of our better weekends. I think part of the problem was that my sister wanted to talk about our father, and I couldn't manage it in the right way at a…

Sympathy (not available at this address) I talked to my mother tonight about my sister. I couldn't talk to my sister, because I don't know where she is, and when I dial her cell phone number, it doesn't ring, it just s…

Crucifying Gordon Gordon performed in his Living stations of the Cross today. Basically, all he had to do as Jesus is look tortured and miserable, which is not even acting for a 14 year old boy. He also happened to be…

Passover state of mind Right now my kids and I are preparing the house for Passover. For the kids, this means coloring the pages in the coloring books that I bought for the occasion. This particular coloring book is p…

Invited This is an actual email that I received this morning. It startled me, because it was forwarded from my father's email address (but my sister is at my father's house, I'm sure she is the one who sent it along), …

Sudden course change I was feeling a lot of stress this week with all the things that were going on in my house. I really didn't want to deal with my father's ailments too. Now things have flip-flopped. My father has…

Keeping in touch This evening I got a call from a neighbor of my father's. She has never met me or spoken to me, but she felt that this was important, so she got phone numbers from my father and called me to let me kno…

No spring The weather went straight from winter to summer. Earlier this week we had snow, and now it is up in the eighties. I took Ben to the playground for a while, but that didn't work out as well as I hoped. The p…