Archive for June, 2006

Isabel Blackwell Roberts

June 28, 2006

Today has been one of the most wonderful, exhausting, rewarding, and grounding days of my life…(sigh)

In all the ways that matter, I met this woman for the first time today.
She is my paternal grandmother. Or as we say it down South, my daddy’s moma. She was born in 1924, weighing less than 5 lbs. She [...]

Mind in Motion

June 26, 2006

I need a little direction. I never thought I would say that, but I do. I have a life plan, don’t get me wrong. I need direction for “like” tomorrow…and the next day. Until then, I am taking one “happy pill”, and at least one “chill pill” a day (my loving euphamisms for the [...]

I Am Changed.

June 24, 2006

How do you start a post when you haven’t posted in weeks? And, during those very weeks, your life has changed fundamentally. You blog, as a new and different person, a self related to the self that wrote here before, but not one and the same. I stand in an ironic relationship with my past [...]