My Mom died again for the millionth time. Grief is funny like that.
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Feisty Quill rides the waves of grief, and she’ll show YOU how to do it, too.
“Didn’t anybody ever tell you, Annie? When you dance you pay the man who plays the tune?” Larry Gatlin, 1973 Penny Annie was a Larry Gatlin song from the 1973 album “The Pilgrim.” I remember dancing to it, over and over, both when I was quite new on this earth and later, when I was […]
My brother’s dog died. Many hearts are broken.
My Dad stays Dead for his birthday. Feisty wonders about the writing gene, and Mark Twain makes a combeback.
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Gremlins on Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve is upon us, and in my family, this is truly the start of Christmas. My stepdad, Niels, is Danish, so Christmas for him–and Denmarkians in general–is Christmas Eve. The big, traditional meal, the gifts, the cool tradition of singing carols while circling around a tree that is lit with actual candles. In the […]
Holidays are hard. Stay home, be grateful, stick around for next time.
Feisty Quill visits Senior Centers in California and discovers they are all you imagine them to be. And worse.
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Perfect!
It finally happened. I’m perfect!! At least that’s what my scale said this morning, proudly announcing to me: 130 pounds. That’s it! I made it! I’m finally perfect… I haven’t weighed 130 pounds since I was in high school a bunch of years ago, back when I weighed, um, 130 pounds. In high school, […]
As far as inside vs outside, I was always an indoor kid. Outside, I walked three miles to my Mom’s work until a police officer picked me up. My first and only brush with the law.