Mama Lolli Pop Posted on March 21, 2008 By pamela After seeing our family’s singing debut (with the happy birthday video we made for Timothy so could see & hear us singing to him from the other side of the world) our friend called me, Mama Lolli Pop. I already have a mousy voice — but increase the speed of a video a few notches, and I really have a mousy-lolli-pop voice. Well, then, I just had to share a pic that makes me smile – the lolli pop is totally and completely coincidental!! Samuel and Hannah had walked to First street… looked through some of the antique shops and ended up at Sammie Jo’s candy store where Samuel bought a lolli pop. It proved to be too much for him, so he passed it on to ‘melia. I didn’t realize she was hanging on to it when she went to take a rest… so, couldn’t pass up the photo op when I went in to check on her. so, I guess this makes her — baby lolli-pop? Family my story
Make no provision for the flesh Posted on June 15, 2012 Lots of times, when a story is told, readers are left wondering: what happened? This is especially true when specific or pertinent details are intentionally omitted (especially when the topic is of a more sensitive nature or where others are involved and wouldn’t be well served by the telling). But… Read More
Jumping Off The High Dive Posted on February 25, 2020 Now, many decades ago, I climbed the steep steps up to the high dive at our local community pool in Southern California where I was raised. I’d been swimming most all my life (it was a given that most all the homes had a swimming pool) and from a young… Read More
money – money – money – money Posted on September 25, 2008 Everywhere – it’s everywhere. Talk, talk, talk… the economy, jobs, bailouts, recession, buyouts, loans, failures, credit, money, money, money. My husband’s in the swimmingpool business. In the Pacific Northwest. We know about the downturn. Got the memo this past summer – it wasn’t really a banner year. But you know…… Read More