At least once a decade, I try to put in an appearance at the Kornish family reunion. This was the year! On the trip this summer, we stopped at Dear Mother-in-Law’s home on the way to Middle of Nowhere, PA (reunion venue, and no, not the official name of the town). DMIL was a champion […]
Family
Ancestral Wisdom
My father created a small brochure to distribute to his four grandchildren in 2007. The title of the brochure (or tome, if a brochure can be a tome) is “The Wisdom of the Grampus.” He made extra copies, so his grandchildren’s parents and grandmother (aka Grammus) got copies, too. It has a calendar format, with […]
Wolves
I have been known to offer the following explanation for my quirks: “I was raised by wolves.” I am not sure if Dear Sister (DS) also uses this shorthand language. But I know she will back me on everything here. Daddy Wolf raised his daughters to be fierce. The lesson took better with me than […]
How Can I Write a Title for a Post When Words Cannot Do Justice to These Moments?
The blog has a new character! !!! Grandson 1 has arrived. Grandson 1’s parents (Son 1 and Dear Daughter-in-Law) do not want photos posted of him. I get it. I specifically recall the origin of this insistence. Son 1 was a teen. I showed him that when one wrote stuff online, people for years to […]
It’s a Sign (2024 Edition)
This is a beautiful ballad from the Eagles, released in 1975, “Take It to the Limit.” Listen here. All alone at the end of the evening And the bright lights have faded to blue I was thinking ’bout a woman Who might have loved me I never knew You know I’ve always been a dreamer […]
Runcible
One of the themes in my remarks at my dad’s memorial was his love of poetry. He always told us, “poetry was meant to be read aloud.” Last week I traveled to Bloomington, Indiana and had breakfast at a restaurant called Runcible Spoon. The reference felt like a wink from dad: Edward Lear’s “The Owl […]
And Now
Heartrage is exhausting. I am not done raging, but I do take breaks. Here’s one of them. DH and I are watching Blue Bloods. Blue Bloods is a police family show with an ensemble cast. “Police family” in the sense that all the adults in the family are in the police, except the district attorney […]
Waste Not, Want Not
I wrote a few months ago about my dad’s passing. Mom is doing really well. My sister and I have been visiting her to help with some of the team projects. Last summer, I helped find a home for the 1980s electronics assemblies that my dad used in building Gamma Instruments (his thickness gauge business). […]
MCB 1942-2023
This post covers an ending of one era and a beginning of another. In Spring of 2022, my sister visited my parents. In our debrief she gave me stern instructions: Don’t wait until Thanksgiving to visit. Dad’s health is not good. I called home and confronted my dad. Amy says you are not going to […]
Who Said That?
Son #2 was home for a few days from NYC. I asked him what the strangest or funniest or scariest (which I added reluctantly because who wants to know that? not this mama) thing he has seen in the subway. I follow Subway Creatures on instagram; I know there is strange stuff to be seen: […]