During our downsizing these two dolls tumbled out of a box. I had to smile when I saw them. They were the bride and groom that stood stark naked atop our wedding cake 38 years ago. On a Friday afternoon, all those years ago, a Justice of the Peace married us at the courthouse...
This week I’m going to move away from my preoccupation with our downsizing experience and write something for Mother’s Day. But I don’t want to write about my mother. I want to talk about my daughter. She and I had so many tickle and...
The sale day came, a Saturday morning, and for the first hour, maybe two hours, no one showed up. We’d been to the bank the day before and our pockets were bulging with change as we sat on the couch waiting. My husband had...
Downsizing I’ve learned is a process of getting rid of the old. And once I moved passed figuring out what stays and what must be left behind the major problem became how to get rid of all that’s now considered excess. There was a...
I am really surprised at how much emotional stuff I am being confronted with as I go through this process of downsizing. For instance, many years ago I decided that traveling was the one thing in my life that I really wanted to do....
In this downsizing process I’m beginning to feel a bit like “Old Mother Hubbard who went to her cupboard to find her dog a bone.” Yikes, take a look at the bookshelf next to my computer!! It used to be jammed packed with books;...
As I go through the process of downsizing I keep running into interesting bits and pieces of the past, like my first journal, Dear Diary. I found this plastic covered book buried under a pile of other journals. When I saw it there was...
