Oops, that comment above got truncated. "Sorry for going on about ME," I was saying... Your posts and comments remind me that I need to hang out here more often!!! (And just keep reminding myself

Thank you @goldenoakfarm and @riverflows for sharing the sense of loss, the impact of burying a loved one. Sorry to have gone on about *me me me me .... grateful that you told us how hard it is to go on.

"How hard it was for me to function" after the loss of a loved one - Maybe if I'd found a therapist, I'd have been "validated" (excused?) for shutting down. Two sisters, and our father,

Oh I love this! What makes me sad? Eric asked in another of his Monday memoir installments. I couldn’t think of anything, other than a loved ones dying, that makes me truly sad. This Monday morning I

I have no idea how I managed to bathe poor Tommy the ginger tom. I know only that he was so decrepit, so near to death, he LET ME douse him in warm water and suds him with Irish Spring. The fleas dropped

Dance in the kitchen, play the ukelele, summon some friends - sounds like a plan! Joy Joy Joy!

Irish Spring - a bar of this soap kills fleas instantly! Put to the test on a cat who had fleas crawling all over him. Dusted my carpets with silicon or diatomateous earth many times, then vacuumed

You aunt was not a spinster aunt, like mine - just childless - I got that wrong. Two husbands? How did I not see (or remember) that! Is it just last-century families, or certain countries and cultures,

No, no, not "much better" than your poems - it's precisely because yours are THAT GOOD that I thought of them!!! This silencing of the Muse, this concerns me. Is it part of turning 60 (or more)?

Teaching their children that it's ok to banish family members who don't live up to their expectations - Will it come back to bite them - Thank you for your empathy and support, @owasco!! Ironically, this

What a great review! The romance genre is one I usually avoid, but this one sounds appealing, with the silent hero and the way "disability is a central focus, and I found it refreshing to see a story

Thank YOU, Jessuses, for reading and commenting! It's a mystery to me - how forgiving some people can be, and how punitive or uncharitable (harsh) others can be.

Anywhere Imaginable by David Demro

Rude neighbors - now there is a prompt for the next freewrite! You want "to go up and talk to her, as a good neighbor, what remains is to make a first contact, to try to resolve the situation before

A bad sign, indeed, to be so excited over a new gadget that leads to Brain Rot. Love your spelling - "Brian" rot - poor Brian. :) ‘Brain rot’ is defined as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s

Ohhhh but I love your freewrite - it reminds me of a Billy Collins poem! Flaubert As he looked for the right word, several wrong words appeared at his window. David Demro has just published his second

My middle child does acknowledge her childhood was one of privilege, and that I encouraged my kids and nurtured their talents and interests, and all was well, until college... Never did I lie around sobbing

Thank you - and thank you for this: 'How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child.' How did I fall so far from the freewritehouse? You - @owasco, @deirdyweirdy, @myjob, all of you

First, the epic and most endearing BAD SIGN is this satire in The Onion, in 2009: Click on it! I hyperlinked it just for you! Second, I finally (FINALLY) wrote today, first freewrite in forever: THANK

Ohhh THANK YOU @honeydue! You nailed it: these days, POLARITY is more common than family unity, it seems. Therapists keep telling clients that forgiveness does not require reconciliation: that we can forgive