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It’s getting close to Christmas time. Please consider buying my book on Amazon! 🙂 Here’s a link to a book trailer. Enjoy the pictures of Mom and the kids and me looking ten years younger.

I sit in the dining room.  It’s so quiet, the only sound is the ticking of the kitchen clock.  I didn’t even know it ticked.   When I came home from the accident the three little children were playing on the stairs to the third story screaming happy screams.  Now they have gone to bed andContinue reading “Car Crash”

(I don’t have cancer) (This has all the gory details of mammograms and biopsies.) Part I No one brings a friend to their mammogram.  Even if people did before, we are in a pandemic now and we aren’t allowed to bring extra people to doctor appointments.  Even when I’d bring Mom in for her yearlys,Continue reading “My First Mammogram”

September 2020 My friend Chris died today.  His estranged wife called me to tell me the news before she posted it on social media.  He called me last Saturday and sounded happy for the first time in a long time.   These past few years have hit him hard with crisis after crisis, but it feltContinue reading “Mortality”

September 2020 It’s Labor Day but I’m up at six thirty as usual.  It’s nice to be able to sit at the computer in a quiet house and write.  Sophia and Anthony are going to take Basil, Jonah, Xenia, and Justin to Hurricane Harbor, the Six Flags water park, for the day, and Mike andContinue reading “Updates”

Work September 2020 Teaching is going well for me, and the kids like my working too.  I love helping people to learn almost as much as I love doing math problems.  The hardest thing to get used to, next to using community bathrooms again, is having math thoughts going through my mind at all times.Continue reading “Work Is Going Well”

In the third book in the Syra’s Scribbles series, the pressure of the sandwich generation threatens to crush Syra as she gives birth to her fourth child, homeschools the older kids, and takes care of her ailing mother.  Watching her children grow becomes a healing experience as she integrates her early childhood memories with herContinue reading “Back Cover for Syra’s Scribbles III”