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The Mother of All Days
Posted on May 8, 2021 2 Comments
Mother’s Day. She comes around every year and has a way of stopping me in my tracks. A mixture of gratitude and grief, timing and tragedy, love and loss. (note the deliberate order of those comparisons). Elaine. The queen of the glass half full. Even when she couldn’t find the glass anymore she fought her […]
A mother’s roots, 2 years later
Posted on May 10, 2015 2 Comments
This was one of the first things I posted here on Elaineisms. Like my own blog, this too has been taking a long rest. What better day to post here again than Mother’s Day. I first found this the day Elaine fell, Mother’s Day two years ago. I am convinced now that she knew Mother’s […]
Learning to Crochet on the Groovy Couch
Posted on October 16, 2014 2 Comments
Everything about this photo is amazing to me. Even the fact that it was the last shot on the roll and got cut off. The outfits. The concentration. The moment. The COUCH! Flower Power, indeed. Just another reason I am convinced I had the perfect mom. And why I spend every day trying to live up to […]
A mother’s roots
Posted on July 3, 2013 Leave a Comment
Indeed! This sits in a frame next to pictures of my grandmother. I never noticed this until the day Elaine fell. We returned to her house and sitting with my brother in his old bedroom it caught my eye.
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