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Goodbyes Are Never Easy on This Mama Bear’s Heart.
Although his departure from our home was a couple months ago, it did not lessen the sting of parting again after a brief visit to his college dorm last week. After all, he is the last of our four children to leave the nest. He has always been the child most keenly aware of his →
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Why Did I Begin Blogging in the First Place?
[This piece was one I wrote over a year ago and still holds true for why I blog.] One month ago I started this blog. I have posted more than thirty-five entries. Most have included writing, but some have been pictures and movies. I thought I would take a moment to explain why I am →
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The first of a five part Thanksgiving series: PapaBear, Without Him There’d Be No GrizzlyBearMA
Six months ago the decision to call my blog “GrizzlyBearMa” came easily. People with whom I have interacted throughout my life as a mother, know my fierce protective nature. Teachers, caregivers, coaches, relatives, even hairdressers know how active I am in the lives of my four children. They witnessed my large presence hovering nearby, even →
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Puppies’ First Halloween
Koda and Summer are experiencing their first Halloween. It is sure to be exciting with the doorbell ringing all evening long. While I will not be bringing them to the front door to greet the little trick-or-treaters, I will put them in their costumes and let them jump up on the puppy gate to watch. →
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Oh, To Be Young Again, Or Just Do a Headstand
Youth is something we covet the older we get. I remember earlier in my life when I would excitedly count down the days until my birthday, and be thrilled about each additional candle on the cake. Then there were the special birthdays: becoming a teenager, the driving age 16, the R rated movie age 17, →
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Finding the Little Gifts
As it happens in life, I had a week that began at a very low point and then climbed to a high point. Last Sunday I shed many tears. I hugged goodbye my dear friends who had traveled coast to coast to ron de vous with us at our son’s college football game. While we →
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Do Dogs Know When We Are Sad?
Today I googled the question, “Do dogs know when we are sad?” The answers I found varied by what experiments were conducted in the studies. lifescience.com gave me the answer that most closely confirmed my opinion. Dogs do show signs of recognizing sadness in us. In a study where they had the subject crying, the →
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Thank You Kitty
I am sitting in my usual spot in the family room but something is missing. My legs wrapped in the fuzzy blue W & L blanket stretch out over the low coffee table. I have a rectangular pillow wedged behind my lower back for lumbar support on this saggy worn sofa. Even though the temperature →
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Sad about Kitty
Sorry blog reading friends. I did not mean to leave such a vague post. Many different things could bring me sadness over the past 12 hours. Reading the news about a limousine full of twenty people celebrating a birthday crashed and all lives lost. Sad. Hugging our good friends goodbye after they’d traveled across the →
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