My youngest graduated from high school last week. She spent the whole weekend at grad parties. Hers isn’t until July; we like to drag out our celebrations. The celebrating helps temper the feelings of apprehension, the fear of the unknown as she gets ready for college. Yes, she’s excited about her next steps, but she…
Category: Empty nesting
A Photo a Day: When you don’t come back to the place you started from
Day #24 Toby and I took a walk last night. Felt like rain, but only because the wind had kicked up a bit. That’s not a good thing these days. A flammable California does not need wind. But it’s autumn and the evenings cool off — lately with brilliant sunsets, fiery and red. Our normal…
The promises we make to ourselves can be the hardest to keep. (Write Every Day 16)
That picture was taken years ago on a trip to the San Juan Islands. I’m holding my oldest who will now be entering her second year of college, and I love the way the reflection and the mirror seem to hang perfectly in the field. We’re looking forward and backward at the same time. I…
Barbara Ganias Comstock 