Original anecdotes, commentary, rumination, and occasional pontification.
MAY 9, 2021 – If only I’d read about Anna Jarvis, the force behind Mother’s Day in the U.S., before I bought my wife a card and big present! I’ll explain in a bit, but first, a bit o’ history. Ms. Jarvis first celebrated Mother’s Day after her own beloved mother died in 1905. The …
MAY 10, 2020 – (Excerpt from Inheritance – Chapter Five: “Talking Out Loud” by the blogger) – When I was in third grade, Mother returned to the University of Minnesota to study piano pedagogy with Miles Mauney. After acing the program she marketed herself as a piano teacher. She printed flyers and conscripted me to …
MAY 12, 2019 [See Part I] . . . Shortly after that, I had another experience, which also made a lasting impression on me as to Mother’s willingness to see what I saw, as well as taste what I tasted. For dessert one hot summer evening, Mother had served each of us half a grapefruit …
MAY 12, 2019 – When you’re a kid, it’s the random, passing experience of little apparent consequence that can leave a lasting impression about a person. One such experience with Mother occurred for me on a warm, sunny, summer afternoon before I was school age. With her small-boned arms, Mother turned hard on the wheel …