Category Archives: Family

Crazy, I Know!

Posted on January 30, 2024 by apronheadlilly

Growing up, I didn’t have a lot to spend on luxuries of any sort. I certainly didn’t buy clothes since most of what I wore were hand-me-downs or bought new by my parents. I was trying to remember as a … Continue reading →

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Remembering Grey Moments

Posted on January 29, 2024 by apronheadlilly

The whup, whup of the medivac helicopter matched the beat of blood, pulsing in my ears. I couldn’t breathe. My hands were clenched in front of me. A position of prayer, I think. A blur. Help, Jesus. They were talking … Continue reading →

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I Want to Return

Posted on January 27, 2024 by apronheadlilly

I want to return to that place— the comfort and ignorance of childhood, the rooftops, the trees, haylofts, and attics, the fast river and railroad tracks that led nowhere and everywhere, green fields and barbed wire fences, and salt licks … Continue reading →

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What Will People Say?

Posted on January 8, 2024 by apronheadlilly

I taught English for many years, and one assignment I would give my twelfth-grade students close to graduation was to write a list of the things they would want people to say about them at their funerals. Upon completion, and … Continue reading →

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All These Things

Posted on April 10, 2023 by apronheadlilly

All these things that decorate my home, things I have created with passion and energy, skill and sometimes surprising serendipity: They color my home with warmth and visual pleasure. They still bring me joy and satisfaction, remembering those phases of … Continue reading →

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My Record of Wrongs

Posted on May 30, 2022 by apronheadlilly

I kept diaries off and on as a kid, chronicling important stuff like supper menus, sibling squabbles, and crazy crushes; but it wasn’t until I began to travel and sing full time that I started journaling in earnest. Over the … Continue reading →

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Omicron Woes!

Posted on January 6, 2022 by apronheadlilly

O h, no, the dreaded M onster virus has found our house. I thought with a C hange of address, the covid demon would R un in circles, confused as to where we would end up, but O bviously, its … Continue reading →

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“Cats in the Cradle” and Other Untruths

Posted on January 9, 2020 by apronheadlilly

Sandy and Harry Chapin wrote a song in the 70s called “Cats in the Cradle,” which told the story of a parent too busy to be involved in his child’s life; then, when the parent is retired and free of … Continue reading →

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I Miss My Father

Posted on February 9, 2019 by apronheadlilly

I miss my father. Not the last, lingering days when the ravages of Parkinson’s stripped his body of strength and dignity, not the growing quiet and dimming light, the betrayal of senses with the ambush of age and degeneration, not … Continue reading →

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I Miss My Mother

Posted on February 9, 2019 by apronheadlilly

I miss my mother. Not the pained days and her lonely, disorienting moments, not the frontal lobe disintegration that turned a stable woman of integrity into a silly, flirting schoolgirl, not the numbness and loss of dexterity that stole the … Continue reading →

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