Sherry | April 29, 2008
To express his love for me back in the days leading up to our marriage, Mauri listed a couple of things he loved me more than. His dog, Champagne, was one, and another was his guitar. That was a love language I could understand. I have a collection of pictures of my dear man and [...]
Sherry | April 27, 2008
Back in my early Macy years, when I worked freelance only, I had the time it took to organize all the boxes of family history that over time landed in my possession. I covered every flat surface in every upstairs room with old letters and pictures and documents and biographies. I separated out my dad’s [...]
Sherry | April 25, 2008
Anticipated appreciation isn’t nearly as sweet as surprise appreciation. On Tuesday, Denise’s and my boss, Elizabeth, surprised us with lily plants, scones, and coffee drinks to demonstrate her appreciation for our work as “administrative professionals.” Today Josh, our youth pastor—who this week suffered a computer crash toward the end of his final paper for his [...]
Sherry | April 24, 2008
Bethany asked her husband, Bryan: “What do I wear on a date with three married men?” Her dates—Mauri, Howard, and Nate—concurred she chose well. Here they are on their way to Portland to hear jazz icon Dave Brubeck. Dave is nearly 90 years old; each member of the quartet had a full, or approximately full, [...]
Sherry | April 22, 2008
Combining the contents of three computers into one gave me the perfect excuse to sort my digital pictures—files and files and files and files of them, and many of them duplicates. I have an eye (and love) for a good series, so consider this a warning that I’m going to feel compelled to post some [...]
Sherry | April 21, 2008
Tomorrow we’ll celebrate the two-year anniversary of our bike “mishap.” Our little crash pales in comparison to the catastrophes other people suffer, and that’s the very reason we celebrate. Yes, it was traumatic; yes, we both continue to have “issues” resulting from it. But when we drive down that same hill on North Valley Road [...]
Sherry | April 19, 2008
Mauri took this picture yesterday in our backyard. Yes, the sky really was that blue, if only for a moment. I can taste the applesauce already.
Sherry | April 14, 2008
While cousin Helen Katherine is between dogs, she’s flying here and there from her home in Columbis, Ohio, to visit family. This weekend was our turn to show her our exciting life in Oregon. Someone must have been praying for good weather. If it was you, thanks! When we walked in the door at Tillamook [...]
Sherry | April 10, 2008
Just so we’re all together here, MomEdna is Mauri’s first wife’s mom. She and I have talked often about life’s system of give and take. What was taken from her—her only daughter at age 42—and what was taken from me—my only mother at age 74—have, in a sense, been given back to each of us. [...]
Sherry | April 7, 2008
There was a little girl Who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead And when she was good She was very, very good And when she was bad She was horrid. My mother used to recite this poem to me on a regular basis when I was growing up. I got [...]