by Trixie | Nov 22, 2023 | Family, Travel
Stopped for coffee on the long drive home, sitting together in the dark. On the way home from my mom’s after celebrating a special Thanksgiving with her. Exactly one year after she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
by Trixie | Aug 7, 2023 | Candid, Family, Homemaking & Housekeeping
Delia doing housework at her mother-in-law’s (my mom’s) place: Wife Delia on stepladder cleaning the top of mother-in-law’s refrigerator I’ve been here at my mom’s for about a month during and after her gnarly surgery for pancreatic...
by Trixie | Jul 31, 2023 | Family, LOVE
Just three days in three weeks is all we’ve had together, and most of that not alone. There is not even a bed here that we can sleep in together. Still … so much gratitude and love and sweetness.
by Trixie | Sep 14, 2022 | Family, gratitude, Health, LOVE
Delia got her first monkeypox vaccine yesterday. She is a little more sleepy than usual and starting to feel achey. This is what the spot looks like today: After these pandemic years and how Delia acted and responded to all of those challenges, I am even more aware of...
by Trixie | Aug 17, 2022 | Family, gratitude, LOVE
So much love, luck, beauty and comfort sitting in the corner of my huge new-old desk where I’ve been working every day: 37 days straight. Desk from our friend, speaker from my wife, bingo buttons from my mom bought over the phone from across the water when she...
by Trixie | Mar 10, 2022 | Family, Food, Lifestyle, Memories, Music
I love spending time at Delia’s parents house. I don’t think they are quite as fond as having me around as a guest, but that doesn’t stop me from savoring the time we spend there. It is like taking a vacation in a very “appropriate” (and low-thrills) Young Adult novel...
