Picturepocket's Blog

Category: social

  • Stuffed

    We’re leaving behind the museum of us.

  • My Mother’s Husband

    My Mom is getting remarried at 79 and I am having a worse time of it than I expected. My Dad died 18 years ago, so it’s legal and morally acceptable everywhere for her to remarry. I am happy her too, as he seems like a pleasant person with whom she can spend her retirement…

  • Time & Place

    Something to consider is that all cultures are moving forward in time. Because there are so many people that relocated to America from other places, we have a collective tendency know those places by how they were when we last left them. We have French restaurants are that decorated like the 1940s France. In popular…

  • Thanksgiving in January

    Today ends a fairly eventful week. Monday, Eliana was home from school as part of her classroom quarantine and general disruption of every human plan. Tuesday, Tim texted me to asked if we wanted a whole turkey. It was one of the unclaimed frozen birds his work had purchased to give out to the employees…

  • The Motherhood Dilemma

    Pregnancy and motherhood is not a sin.

  • Service With Smiley Face

    Suckers might be born every day, but the rest of us remember.

  • 6 Plagues of the Old Testament

    To use only one verse for guidance is to limit our understanding and perhaps prolong our suffering.

  • Women & Sports

    The bulk of sports is dominated by men, both as audiences and participants.

  • Our History Month

    We don’t have to be the same to get along.

  • I Left My Heart in Asia

    (I can barely begin this piece because it breaks my heart thinking about what happened recently, but I know I will regret it if I don’t.) I have spent a good part of my life living and working with Asians. My best friend in the second grade was from Hong Kong. I had my birthday…