Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts
Thursday, November 28, 2019

SNOWBOUND IN PALMDALE, CALIFORNIA

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Courtyard with reflections from breakfast room Ah, sunny Southern California on Thanksgiving Day — three inches of snow already on th...
Monday, November 5, 2012

FAMILY BUSINESS

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Today, I read a definition of family that resonated with me, and I was happy to discover that there weren’t any phony, sentimental aspects...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

LEAVING OUR FAMILY AT ST. MARY’S

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One of the major experiences I’ll miss when I return to Louisiana for the winter is my life as an Associate with the Anglican Sisters of ...
Monday, May 28, 2012

SOME CHATTER ABOUT CLABBER

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Grandpa Paul  –  Clabber enthusiast &  grandchildren not so fond of the drink Yesterday morning after preaching a Pentecost sermon...
Sunday, April 15, 2012

BANNER BOOK COVERS

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Most grandparents are inordinately proud of their grandchildren, and I’m no exception. A few days ago when I posted a blog about Margaret Si...
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Monday, April 2, 2012

CHAPTER II OF LIVING ON THE MOUNTAIN, WRITING ABOUT THE DESERT

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Burnet, TX, roadside park This is the second blog about a childhood memory of traveling to California, “to gypsy forever” in my father’s ...
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LIVING ON THE MOUNTAIN, WRITING ABOUT THE DESERT

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Post card of saguaro in desert For the past several weeks, I have been putting together a book of poetry and three short stories entitled...
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Monday, March 12, 2012

TOTEM POLES

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I’ve placed photographs of my brother Paul’s yard on my blogs in the past – scenes of his beautiful garden, benches, and lattices he has bui...
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Monday, January 23, 2012

A PAINTING SENT BY BROTHER…

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With a little frame showing. Whoops! Nothing brightens my day more than the arrival of a photograph of one of my brother’s paintings. The...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011

A STORY ABOUT A SON OF THE STREETS

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At least five years ago, in the middle of the night, my youngest brother, Michael, left a state facility in Louisiana where he worked as “ki...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

ALEXANDER…

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There I was, writing a novel based on the life of my great-grandfather, Lawrence Dade Greenlaw, when the telephone rang and my daughter info...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

CAR TALK

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My godmother, Dora Greenlaw Peacock, once told me that of all the things that enraged her, machines and inanimate objects were the worst off...