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The Photobooth

12/02/2022 by Sherring D.

He held out his little arm like he was a long-lost member of the Supremes, performing Stop in the Name of Love.

“Not you, Mama. He pronounced it “muh-muh,” and closed the curtain in his mother’s face.

I can still hear the “shoosk” as the curtain rings slid on the pole.

He was about five or six then. In November, he turned 16. Where does the time go?

Categories: Back in the Day, Fabulousness, Random Thoughts, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Bonding, family, Family Trip, love, memories

I just wanted some comfort food. I had just emerged from a more-than-usual emotionally draining therapy session. I was spent, exhausted and hungry as if I had just completed a Shaun T T25 workout. I longed for a hot shower, comfy sweats and socks and my favorite fuzzy blanket to wrap around myself as I got lost in TV, or even better, a nap. The latter was not likely to happen. It’s rare that I nap on purpose. As much […]

Categories: Back in the Day, Fabulousness, Try New Things, Uncategorized • Tags: Comfort Food, grilled cheese, love, memories, mother, triangle halves

Wistfulness, Longing Nostalgia and Melancholy

12/17/2015 by Sherring D.

No matter my chosen form of escapism, before the journey of relaxation, wonderment or suspended disbelief runs its course, I get hurled back into the reality I’m trying to forget for just a moment. I never want to forget the mother I lost to ovarian cancer when I was eight years old, but sometimes I want to disregard that feeling of permanent loss. Memories of her are fading, but like sugar crystals that have dissolved in hot tea, her essence […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Books, breast cancer, cancer, death, grief, happiness, longing, memories, mother, motherless child, motherless daughter, movies, music, ovarian cancer, sadness, thoughts

Northeastern Weather

11/18/2013 by Sherring D.

I love weddings. Not only is it a chance to get all dolled up for a special, happy occasion, but it’s an opportunity to reunite with people with whom time has created silence and distance. Last weekend I traveled home to Boston from New York for a wedding. The groom was the best friend of my brother, who passed away several years ago. Weddings are expensive. I was flattered to have received an invitation. Technically, the “brother” in question is […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: changes, childhood, family, feelings, friends, friendship, grief, home, loyalty, memories, relationships, roots, wedding

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