I had the Beatles wallpaper, I had – and still have – the Beatles dolls. Like millions of others, I recall the very first time I heard a Beatles song on the radio: I was sitting on my bed doi...
https://youreadermejane.wordpress.com/2022/04/01/beatlemania-favorite-beatle-ringo/
Even when you know, you don’t really fully know. This begins – from personal experience – my series on addiction, on how it eats away at an individual, at a family, and at those who care an...
https://youreadermejane.wordpress.com/2022/01/10/on-addiction-red-flags-privacy-responsibility/
I suspect I’m not alone – especially in the midst of Covid – in this psychic pretzel off holding on to letting go. Did you ever wonder if, in an attempt to let go, you’re not extending th...
https://youreadermejane.wordpress.com/2022/01/03/holding-on-to-letting-go/
If you don’t recognize the word fentanyl, consider yourself lucky that you haven’t had to know it. I just saw the Oscar-winning documentary, My Octopus Teacher. The octopus, with its 8 tentac...
https://youreadermejane.wordpress.com/2021/05/04/lets-talk-fentanyl-overdose-deaths/
I have no idea why Tom Petty's lyrics always pop into my mind at this time. It's ironic that "It's Wakeup Time" comes out, when I'm about to write about designing the granite markers for my mom a...
https://youreadermejane.wordpress.com/2021/03/19/its-headstone-time-writing-granite-marker/
Mom was falling asleep right in front of me, across the little table-for-two, with its little white table cloth, in the dining room at the assisted living facility, the kind of dining room in t...
https://youreadermejane.wordpress.com/2020/12/30/a-little-white-lie-elderly-parents/
A few years back on a Friday morning I received a phone call from my brother one Friday morning. “Dad’s dying. I thought you should know.” Brother was to the point, no word wasted. I got th...
Nature is the great balancer. Nature is in constant motion, even when it seems still. Nature is also sensitive. It supports our world, and reflects the world around it: If the Earth is unhealthy,...
https://youreadermejane.wordpress.com/2020/12/14/in-the-balance-look-life-love-life-death-nature/
“I saw six bunnies on my jog this morning,” my husband likes to tell me when he comes home from an early morning jog. I respond: “You actually count these things?” Our entire neighborhood...
https://youreadermejane.wordpress.com/2020/09/06/rabbits-baby_bunnies-not-in-my-back-yard/
We human adults aren’t the only ones dealing with our kids, restrictions around schooling, and social distancing. Robin moms have to deal with their kids, too, and we soon found ourselves in ...