When You Don’t Use Vaseline by Marianne Lonsdale
You just found out that you do not put Vaseline on someone’s lips if they are having oxygen pumped into their lungs. The Vaseline will deteriorate the tubes that go from the oxygen tank and into their...
View ArticleValentine Surprise by Claire Hennessy
My first Valentine’s Day with my husband was a rather strange affair, made all the stranger by the fact that I hadn’t seen him for over 30 years! We were high school sweethearts, but had lost touch....
View ArticleD is for Dog
Photography by Mary Allison Tierney My husband and I are cat people, but our daughters failed to get the memo. Despite a menagerie of two felines and an assortment of rodents, the lobbying for a dog...
View ArticleWhat I want to remember
We provided a writing prompt to our members recently and received interesting and varied responses. We’re sharing a few on our blog – here’s the third one. Keep in mind these are quick writes to a...
View ArticleDreams
With a touch of the hand and a wink of the eye Life can be happy by and by With a word of kindness and love in the heart Life can be fruitful from wherever you start Enjoy each days blessings both big...
View ArticleThe Best of the Best 2013 – B is for Bug
In a fit of utter madness, the Write On Mamas decided to enter the A-Z Blog Challenge once again in April. This is when you post on a different letter of the alphabet on each day of April. We managed...
View ArticleY is for Yia Yia
Photography by Mary Allison Tierney At her wake the other day, the priest’s wife, the presvytera, said to me “She was an angel. She was so soft-spoken and sweet.” I smiled and thought, yes, she was...
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