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Laugh. To the Point of Tears.

Ok, I am a chicken. A Mother’s Day post was a little more than I could handle yesterday. The day is too much of a juggle between happy and sad, tragic and coping, to have been able to do this. So, I opted for the day after. Because, truth be told, you can only push […]

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MOM. In caps.

I am a mom. And a daughter. And everything that I have learned about being a mom, I learned from being her daughter.

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A mother’s roots, 2 years later

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 […]

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A mother’s roots

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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