That’s IT!!! this helvetica typeface on a pure white background just DOES NOT SUIT. None of the other available Blogger Backgrounds does it for me either… so could you kindly just mock up a peachy backdrop with a heavy bower of fullblown dusty pink roses dripping over these paragraphs? Thanks everso. Much more appropriate to […]

When I was little, everyone said I had too much imagination. Decades later, a newscaster on the radio mentioned an apartment housefire. I got pictures of a woman and small child alone in a room… and suddenly realized it WASN’T imagination: all those years, whether it’d been stuff to make/draw, sudden fears of the dark […]

My mother’s name was Mildred Virginia Peacock Becker. She died shortly before 9/11, right at the end of an era. I spent the last week of her life beside her bed in a Connecticut old folks’ home… she was in a coma from numerous small strokes. I feel blessed to have been there with her […]

Still suspended in space from the marriage of #3 Son. He has married well! A nonstop smile on that guy for the entire wedding afternoon, full teeth. (Smile grading: no teeth, half teeth…) And small wonder: she’s perfect! They run their lives as I do: vocation, avocation and vacation all the same thing, always busy; […]

Yes, it’s Friday! and I am just now back in spirit from a very good wedding. A very good marriage! Betcha my son will see a 50th wedding anniversary with this wonderful wife. They are quite a team. Could’ve waited a couple days and skipped this exchange, but hey: something else will have come up […]