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September 2013

September 23, 2013

Tribe of Blood Kin

“I sustain myself with the love of family.” ― Maya Angelou They told him he has...

September 13, 2013

The Gordon of Crossville, TN

My buddy Gordon took this photo on April 16, 2007. I know the date...

May 2013

May 21, 2013

Looking Up Instead of Ahead

You don't know how strong you are until strong is your only choice. You don't...

January 2013

January 05, 2013

A Tupperware Coffin

Mama ordered a $10 plastic urn. The nit-pickiest woman on planet earth - the...

December 2012

December 30, 2012

Getting Mama Ready

In 1966, when we got word of my father’s death, it was my brother’s...

December 28, 2012

A Good Mama is Hard to Lose

Shelby Jean Mayes Spears, 75, died after a brief bout of cancer at her son’s...

December 12, 2012

Heaven on Parkchester Drive

There are stacks of books on my mother's dressers, piles of books on her bedside...

December 10, 2012

When I lay dying, read me Flannery

When I am dying do not read to me books of heaven and the people...

November 2012

November 28, 2012

Mother Steel & Marlo Thomas

I worry that we have only changed out addictions. Traded in the packs of...

November 17, 2012

Keeping the Swarm

They say it often, and it is true, there is no miracle like that of...

November 12, 2012

Dawn of a New Birthday

The dawn of this day began with a flight west. Headed home. Home...

November 10, 2012

Denying Ourselves

After my mother was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer in August, someone told...

October 2012

October 23, 2012

Losing Mama

I walked 20 steps, from Mama's bedroom to the laundry room. Mama was sitting on...

October 21, 2012

And Now A Word from Your Local Undecided

October 10, 2012

IHOP: Encouragement on a plate

He didn't know that we had spent an additional two hours waiting for the doctor,...

October 02, 2012

Praying for Miracles

Back in my reporting days I did a story about miracles and the people...

September 2012

September 13, 2012

Stumbling Along

I lost the car keys. I should have remembered all this from my days mothering...

September 12, 2012

Death’s Long-Shadow

Irony is the long-shadow of death. It is early morning yet. I have just administered...

September 09, 2012

Rebuking the Powers of Cancer

We were sitting outside a drugstore. My sister-in-law was inside, picking up a couple of...

September 07, 2012

Solidarity with the Grandchildren

When his sister got married a couple of years ago, Stephan walked his Hero Mama...

September 04, 2012

In Search of Restoration

I arrived home from Seattle on Saturday. It had been an eventful last week of...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

The Veterans & the Nurse

It's the veterans she served as a nurse that Mama remembers best. Bruce. Homer. Mike....

August 23, 2012

J-Lo & George W. Bush Weirdness

I got nothing. Nothing to add to the debate about Rep. Todd Akin and "legitimate...

August 22, 2012

Briefly

Taking Care of Mama 8.22.12 You buy the plane ticket To come see me You...

August 18, 2012

Root Little Pig

The blinds drawn, lights off, I leaned over Mama's hospital bed and rubbed her...

August 16, 2012

Facing the Haint of Death

“This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year,...

August 15, 2012

The Healing of the Dying

A watercolor of Scottish man in a kilt playing the fiddle took the Judge's Choice...

August 13, 2012

Wonders of the Brokenhearted

The argument over health care is politically-charged and I have nothing much to add...

August 12, 2012

A Biscuit & Black Coffee Run

Mama is sitting at the edge of her bed eating a biscuit with jam and...

August 11, 2012

As women gather

A week ago I was in a hospital in Spokane, Washington celebrating the birth of...

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