Tag Archives: relationships

Love, Young and Old

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Coming East

Warm, gray, drizzly day, heavy with the promise of spring.  Schubert string quartets playing softly on the stereo.  Earl Grey steaming from my Mexican pottery mug.  I watch as the pictures cycle through my digital picture frame on the counter, … Continue reading →

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The Stress of Motherhood

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Coming East

The baby is sick.  He has a fever, and his mommy doesn’t know what to do for him.  It matters not that the baby in question is in his early thirties and I am the mommy who is nearly thirty … Continue reading →

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I Think I’m in Trouble

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Coming East

If you’ve been following my blog, you know that every Wednesday my four-year-old neighbor, C, comes over for a visit.  It started out as Spanish lessons, but there wasn’t a lot of interest in that subject after the first few … Continue reading →

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Wild Geese

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Coming East

Every day this week, at about the same time in the early afternoon, a flock of Canada geese flies over my house in a perfect V formation, their long necks stretched out, their magnificent honking echoing in the winter air.  … Continue reading →

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A Year’s End Reflection

Posted on December 27, 2010 by Coming East

Every nerve ending was fired with excitement as we left Dunkin Donuts, thermoses full of hot coffee, and crossed the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in the dark.  There is something magical about watching the sunrise on the Eastern Shore, steaming cup … Continue reading →

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Song Without Words

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Coming East

Mendelssohn is known for his “Song Without Words.”  I feel sure he wrote that for his wife because couples have a certain language between them that requires no speech.  That’s a good thing because for the past few years, I’ve … Continue reading →

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A Guest at the Feast

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Coming East

I remember Thanksgiving mornings waking me up with the savory scent of onions and celery sauteing in an iron skillet while my grandmother made the stuffing and my mother prepared the turkey for the oven.  My brother, sister and I … Continue reading →

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Balance of Power

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Coming East

This past weekend my husband and I drove from our home in Virginia Beach to Connecticut for our niece’s wedding.  K. is my husband’s sister’s daughter, but he will agree she is no less my niece than his.  This was … Continue reading →

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There Are No Do-Overs in Parenting

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Coming East

I’ve been visiting my daughter for close to a week now, watching her interact with my two beautiful granddaughters who are eight and twelve, and I’m a little hurt she hasn’t asked for my advice on raising children.  After all, … Continue reading →

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Windows on the Soul

Posted on September 19, 2010 by Coming East

My husband would have liked Hattie Wyatt Caraway.  When she walked into the Senate chambers as the first woman elected to serve a full term, her first words were, “The windows need washing.”  Yesterday, on a sunny September morning, my … Continue reading →

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