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It’s been more than 10 years since this episode in our lives. I’ve been thinking about another little story from that time that I can not write about now because I don’t have all of the facts. While looking for that story, I found this one. I feel that time’s poignancy often, as both Mom…
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BOOM! A loud thunder shook the house at 4 AM today, like an imaginary giant had stomped on it. I opened the shade to see the storm, then closed it, hoping to fall back asleep. A little later, the purr of the portable fan stopped, and the light from my bedside alarm clock was gone.…
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Last night, I told our daughter that we are all vulnerable, thinking about how a health episode can change plans. I didn’t tell her then that I woke up at 5AM with a severe episode of vertigo, while still in bed. This changed my plans for the day. What I had planned was to go…
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Making an Italian sausage/chunky vegetables (onion, tomato, red pepper, mushroom) spaghetti sauce sounded fun and delicious. Add a side of steamed fresh green beans and it would be perfect! I cleaned and trimmed all veggies and got out the steamer to cook the green beans first. Dan does not like them crisp! I must give…
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The other day, my daughter-in-law passed on to me a prayer that her grandpa had just sent to her. It was the Prayer of St. Francis that begins with “Make me a channel of your peace.” I immediately started singing it in my head. This whole prayer was put to music in 1967 by a…
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When our niece, Wendy, titled her farewell e-mail, “An Okoboji Goodbye”, I thought it was so poetic. We had missed her family’s departure from the Neary Clan 2023 Reunion, where 130 people arrived and departed at all hours. It was a 10 day get-together at Village West Resort in NW Iowa’s glacial lake region, specifically…
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It all started on a sparkling, sunlit day in mid November, 2022. I walked among the fallen leaves of my one time neighborhood around St. Margaret Mary’s church, on Dodge St. Then, I crossed the street and walked around the campus of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, looking at art in its galleries. This…
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Priceless, vulnerable, with you all the time. That pretty much describes a baby, and my 8 month old ipad. Like most of you, I hold my ipad all day long. This past week it was for reading an Omaha library e-book, THE IMMORTAL IRISHMAN, by Timothy Egan, (a Bryan Neary recommend-it was mesmerizing!), and for…
On Writing, On Life 