Mom is fading and one of the hard things about living across the country is not being able to “time” when the “right” time is to come home. At any given moment the report from home can be Mom’s dying, Mom’s resurrected; Mom’s not eating, Mom’s eating again; they’re transferring Mom to hospice, hospice can […]
JANET M. KING
BIG LIFE
What is it with the people who are going around these days saying, “My life is FABulous. I have a BIG LIFE.” As my friend Josh says: “What are you, a foreign dignitary? Are you a sheik?” My friend Lisa has a slightly different take on such folks: “You have a BIG LIFE? Well, get […]
M IS FOR THE MILLION THINGS SHE GAVE ME…
Today is the 83rd birthday of my mother, Janet McCray House King. She was born in rural Rhode Island and raised on a poultry farm. Her mother often went days without speaking a word and her father left one day, when my mother was a teenager, and never came back. She married my father on […]