So on my last visit to Mom I brought along some 'presents' for her ( Read more... )

So last week Mom began talking about the car again. and Wednesday or Thursday declared in my morning phone call with her 'the car will be ready on Friday.' Okay. I pass this off as something she's made up. Until, late Friday afternoon at work when I found a message on my work phone saying.... you guessed it, the car was ready ( Read more... )

I spent yesterday getting jerked around. Hence, the title of this entry. I spent two days trapped in conference rooms for training/work sessions related to my job. Trapped in such a manner seriously limits one's ability to multitask phone calls to various people ( Read more... )

Springfield. Yes folks, on my way to work Friday, August 1 I find out that my mother is at a hospital in Springfield Missouri. Okay then. This is dandy. I'm a cost accountant and must be at work. How am I getting her home, or close to home or at least out of the hospital and into some's safe hands? My stomach is in knots, I have a tension ( Read more... )

So, Saturday, while happily seated at a table on the third floor (quiet room) of Boone County Public Library here in Columbia, I received a call (give me credit the phone was on vibrate). I see the 785 area code and groan. I let it go to voice mail. Voice mail is left and I try to move on with my work (writing, my happy place, I was in a zone) ( Read more... )