Easter is my favorite, second to Christmas. I have written about my Easter nostalgia before, frilly dresses with ruffled socks, ceremonial speeches, music, church, the very reason for celebration and its ever-deepening meaningfulness, all at the onset of spring. It’s a beautiful time. Last Easter, COVID stopped us from physically going to church. I still bought an…
What I’m wearing for Easter this year
Have a Lovely Week…and Happy Spring!
The looming cold grayness has faded almost to distant memory, though you haven’t even hung your puffer coat back up in the closet from when you had it on last week. The sun is back again, hanging around well after 5 pm. Looking through the window, a little deception toys with your emotions–it looks glorious,…
Current Obsession: The Cross Connection with Tiffany Cross
What have I been doing on Saturday mornings between 10 am and 12 pm for the past couple of months? Watching The Cross Connection on MSNBC with Tiffany Cross-–and I am beyond obsessed. I incidentally came across the show at the top of the year, and now it’s my new Saturday morning “thing.” I don’t know what…
Happy 313 Day!
March 13th, a.k.a. 313 Day—those of us from the D celebrate our love for the city today. Here are 13 ways you can spend 313 Day 2021 in Detroit, or you can re-read my love memoir to the city I wrote a few years ago, circa 313 Day 2018. Forever Detroit, born and bred. Happy 313! THREE ONE…
Destined to be a Legend
I love this blue(-gray) polish, so peaceful and pretty, the perfect welcoming of spring (now 18 days away, thank goodness). “Got a new collection,” Cheryl mentioned as I walked back to her station last Tuesday because she knows a new collection of nail colors to choose from sits in the corner of my happy place. Ash had…
On listening to your child pray
One forever memory of my dad is him praying. Every single night, we saw him kneel at his bedside on his knees, right in front of his nightstand with the stash of coins on top, emptied from his pocket at the end of each day, and silently pray before going to sleep. Every single night,…