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Family Therapy in The House of Dust, Part Nine, The Rest of the Trip

Posted by By gballwvo July 24, 2012Posted inChildhood memories, Family, Friendship, Life, Therapy, Travel, Uncategorized, Writing
On Tuesday Sue and I head to Utica because there is a place there that does wine tasting and features wine from a local winery.  The entire time I lived…
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Family Therapy in The House of Dust, Part Eight, The Rest of the Trip

Posted by By gballwvo July 11, 2012Posted inDrinking, Family, Friendship, Life, Therapy, Travel, Uncategorized
The drive is uneventful otherwise.  We talk some but mostly we listen to Steve’s CD’s.  He has them in a metal case and he’s very good about changing them.  He…
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Family Therapy in The House of Dust, Part Seven, The Rest of the Trip

Posted by By gballwvo July 5, 2012Posted inFamily, Life, Restaurants, Travel, Uncategorized
We head back to Illinois on Monday, which is Memorial Day.  Steve has suggested at least once that perhaps I didn’t plan this trip very well.  Did I realize it…
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Family Therapy in The House of Dust, Part Six

Posted by By gballwvo June 29, 2012Posted inChildhood memories, Family, Life, Therapy, Travel, Uncategorized
We return to what I’ve come to think of as The House of Dust.  Two years unoccupied.  We opened the windows to air the house out when we arrived on…
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Family Therapy in The House of Dust, Part Five

Posted by By gballwvo June 23, 2012Posted inChildhood memories, Family, Life, Therapy, Travel, Uncategorized2 Comments
We go into the living room to chat some more.  Of course Mom can’t hear anything even when someone shouts.  No one is sitting close to her to repeat everything…
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Family Therapy in The House of Dust, Part Four

Posted by By gballwvo June 20, 2012Posted inFamily, Life, Therapy, Travel, Uncategorized
Sunday, May 26, 2012  Scrub and I have decided to go to church “out on the prairie” which is where my parents always went to church.  If we go we…
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Family Therapy in The House of Dust, Part Three

Posted by By gballwvo June 19, 2012Posted inChildhood memories, Drinking, Family, Life, Uncategorized
        Mom launches into a reminiscence about her own parents.  Her mother had to get up every morning and make biscuits from scratch on an old wood cook stove.  My…
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Family Therapy in The House of Dust, Part Two

Posted by By gballwvo June 12, 2012Posted inFamily, Life, Therapy, Uncategorized, Writing
I haven’t seen Scrub or my mother in two years, not since Kevin’s funeral.  We’ve never been particularly close, but we tend to come together during family crises, like when…
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Why I Don’t Cook

Posted by By gballwvo May 21, 2012Posted inCoffee, cooking, Life, Marriage, Uncategorized, Writing, Writing Romance
This morning in an effort to get my diabetic husband to make better food choices I decided to make a blueberry muffin recipe I found on the internet.  This is…
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Barb’s Box of Stuff

Posted by By gballwvo May 18, 2012Posted inFriendship, Life, love, Marriage, Writing
When you’re looking at downsizing your living quarters you have to make some tough decisions about what you’ll be getting rid of. In a far back corner of my closet…
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