This is not a medical information post, it is simply a cautionary tale of my personal experience that I felt compelled to share. My lesson learned may help someone else avoid the same mistake. Around June 5th I got Covid. Let me be honest, I haven’t had a vaccination since 2023 and felt pretty bullet […]
Category: Prose
Essays and Stories
The Price of Love
Dedicated to Howie 11/17/2013 – 10/06/2023 It’s New Year’s Eve, and I am fluctuating between writing and watching the entertainment in Times Square. I had a blessed year because I woke up this morning and am still here. It was a challenging year in many ways, but the strength to meet the challenges somehow appeared […]
Dog Parent’s Responsibilities
I want to say something about being a responsible dog parent, because this morning was very upsetting to me and my little guy, Howie. He is around 11 lbs, closer to 12 if he’s soaking wet. A little shitzu-poodle mix, a tired old guy who is almost 10 years old, who only wants a nice […]
Sharing Grace
Grace. According to the dictionaries, the definitions range from benevolence to forgiveness. We grow up hoping for grace as we make our mistakes in life, and we try to give grace through acts of kindness we show others along the path. Grace, therefore, helps us to grow as humans. In my almost seventy years on […]
Happy Labor Day!
Labor Day is the time we reflect on all the workers who have made the USA a strong and vibrant country. We take the day to relax, thankful for the holiday that celebrates our hard work. I would like to focus on another level of worker, the supervisor, who makes the difference between a stressful […]
Running the Race
Recently I was sitting at a four-way light, looking at the people in the other lanes, all of us waiting for our signal to proceed. My vehicle pointed North towards home. It was a sunny but cool afternoon, as we’re getting glimpses of warmth here in the Northeast. It is still March, after all. While […]
Celebrating Each Other
We find our moments of celebration wherever we can these days, in our nearly post-quarantine world we have learned to appreciate each other more than ever. Our lives have been forever imprinted by this unseen enemy as we try to find a semblance of a new normal to continue forward. Deep inside us, now more […]
Managing Expectations
Today I got my third review, the first negative one, on the Amazon website for my book ‘Love, Gramma’. I have been anticipating this, wondering how I would feel when it happened. I have to admit, my first reaction was feeling kicked in the gut, but my second reaction was almost instantaneously after that, and […]
When You Grow Up
In honor of Mother’s Day coming up in a few days, I decided to share an essay I wrote about my children when they were younger and driving me slightly bananas. At the time I wrote it, I had been a single mother for 13 years raising two sons, so there’s that. “When You Grow […]
Susan B. Lovejoy 