Women’s History Month

My blog on Over the Backyard Fence today is all about Women’s History month and my grandmother, the salt of the earth woman who shaped my life. Even after forty years, I miss her.

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It’s Women’s History month, commemorating the vital role women have played in American history.

There are so many women who have helped shape our future, like Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Harriet Tubman, and so many more it’s hard to find space for even the highlights. Here’s a couple of sites if you’d like to read about some of these amazing women.

https://time.com/5786065/womens-history-month-women-to-know/

Women in American History

I’m choosing to talk about one woman. My grandmother.

She didn’t shape worlds, but she was the rock that shaped our family and she taught us all what it means to be loved unconditionally. And also what was right and wrong and how to be a large family with opinions and differences, but to still remember the love. And what a sparkle in her eyes she had. 🙂

My grandmother, Lila, was one of seventeen children. She gave birth to eleven children, who gifted her…

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Summer’s Heat and a New Series

Today, here in the Pacific Northwest, we are having unprecedented weather. I’ve always felt compassion for those who live in areas who get 100+ temps, but now, being in the midst of that kind of rare temperature (for us), I honestly don’t know how people in Phoenix or other places survive the summers. I don’t …

It Takes a Village…

“Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.” — David Ogden Stiers I rarely make political statements and this isn't really one, either. Rather, it's a call for remembering what's important.Over the last few years, something that two different people said stuck with me. One was my mother, the other a complete stranger.When my mother …

Giveaway and a Pre-order

May is almost at an end and our weather in the Pacific Northwest has been cooler more than warmer. We’ve finally been getting a little rain so the grass and flowers and plants on our little acre are heaving huge sighs of relief. Fully vaccinated, we are getting back to visiting with family and friends …

Home Away from Home

I’m blogging about a wonderful, recent stay at the beach on Over The Backyard Fence. Stop by and say hi if you have a minute. 🙂

Over The Backyard Fence

I should be posting about my family winter cabin adventure here. This would have been our 21st year, I think. We postponed it because of COVID-19. It’s only a year. We’ll be back at it, and we’re all very grateful for every year we get to do this.

So instead, I took a solo trip to the beach. I needed to let all the negativity go and find the peace in my heart again, and in the process, I found my happy place. I’ve traveled some and have always wondered if I could live here or there. But I’ve never felt completely content, like I could spend the rest of my life there.

I could here. It’s perfect. The day I arrived, it was snowing. At the beach. Unheard of in Washington State. I had to drive through blowing snow for half an hour, but none of that was a…

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