Sunshine and Darkness
My granddaughter, Little Tweetie Pie came over today. Spending time with that adorable six-year-old is always entertaining. In her, I get to see facets of the personalities of many of my loved ones. Little Tweetie […]
My granddaughter, Little Tweetie Pie came over today. Spending time with that adorable six-year-old is always entertaining. In her, I get to see facets of the personalities of many of my loved ones. Little Tweetie […]
When I was pregnant with the first Impossible Miracle, I had a dream that I foolishly shared with my sister in the presence of Sunshine. It was a typical dream, I think, for pregnant women, […]
Everyone has buttons that can be pressed to make them angry, frustrated, or enraged. I’m usually sent into fits of rage whenever my mother says something less-than-flattering about my children. I am probably quite typical […]
We were all fat in Sunshine’s eyes. No, that’s not true. Lynne and I were her fat daughters. Straighten Up! and The Tempest were extra thin, thus they were spared the fat taunts. They were […]
Lynne is right, Sunshine loves her soap operas. No, she LOVES her soap operas. And CNN. And talk shows. And television in general. Me too. I love TV. No, I LOVE TV. I always have. […]
For someone as obsessed with the imagined sexual behavior of her young daughter as my mother was, Sunshine was remarkably unconcerned with the sex education I got from her favorite soap operas. She was a […]
The Mayo Clinic advises that when it comes to menstruation, it’s important to begin explaining early. They say the sooner a mother starts talking to her daughter, the better. Don’t teach by way of The […]