You may remember my Mom  – ( I always think Mom and Dad should be capitalized ) — my incredible Mother, Phyllis Greene.  We wrote Designated Daughter together.  The best thing about the book is that she didn’t die at the end ! She is still here with us, blogging, yet.   We had a real scary year in there, and then a Miracle.  We live from Miracle to Miracle.  We have seen them up close and personal and we believe and depend on them.

I was talking to my cute neighbor  – a working mother of a four – year – old, a wife — about the longing for solitude, for a minute, a pizza on the couch alone.

But, You know, D.G., she said. You don’t really know what solitude is until you lose your mother.  I know and fear what she meant.But on a cheery note, and it is Springtime after all, check out Phyllis Greene’s blog:  wedeb90.blogspot.com