Someone in California was sold the winning Powerball ticket. I can’t even fathom how their life is going to change. We didn’t even get one single number in the two tickets that we purchased. We had fun fantasizing about what we might do with the money. My family wanted to travel with […]
Inspiration
My Brother Cletus Painting
A little bit before Christmas, I saw a Facebook post from St. Mary’s University announcing that Brother Cletus would be closing his art gallery. He would gradually be cutting his hours until shuttering it all together. He will finally retire from almost forty years of operating the St. Mary’s University Art Center. My first reaction […]
A Yellow Rose
I’ve gotten to the point in life that I am having to attend a lot of funerals. It’s not exactly something that I look forward to but in some unexpected ways, they’ve become a place of comfort. My earliest memory of Chris Dukes was hearing her high heels tap down the long hallway that lead […]
Big Changes Coming to Livin’ Sassy
My little blog has been awfully quiet lately, too quiet. I never knew how much I loved blogging until I stopped doing it full time. Something happened a few months ago that put me on a path for change. I received a phone call in my car during my work -day. It was someone wanting […]
A Woman of Significance
Last year on September 5th, my day began like any other day. I struggled to get the kids out of bed because they were still adjusting to the start of a new school year. I raced my daughter Catherine […]
My Son
Ever since I went through all the pictures for my son’s 8th grade graduation ceremony, I’ve been filled with such melancholy. I will never forget when I took my son out in public by myself for the very first time. He was about two weeks old and I ventured out to the mall. I took […]