Whenever I go to the brocante I usually look in boxes and tins after I have looked around the entire fair. Then after I have checked out the big things, I go back and dig into the small things.  Today…

                                            My mother is home. She has some difficulty with her left hand and leg, though with physical therapy it will improve and correct itself. The doctors say she suffered a mild stroke on the right side of her brain.…

                      Ready and waiting. My mother was preparing for her annual Halloween Buffet. Anyone who knows my mom knows they are welcomed to come to her home after they have gone "Trick or Treating". I called her around two in…

I have just heard that my mother had a mild stroke. She is in the hospital. My brothers are with her… I feel like the gap of suffering and sadness that we have gone through with my Father has split open……

Okay, I know I am one of the last persons on the planet not to own a TV. When I moved to France twenty some years ago, not speaking more than a few words of French and married to someone who…