Author Archives: helvetius59

If I had known…  Known that Rose would be gone by age 44, Known that Ruby would be gone by age 55, Known that Rene would be gone by age 66, Known that Mom would be gone at 92, Would … Continue reading →

It’s been eight months since you were granted your wings – beautiful, grand, and golden – the much deserved wings that I wish you could have spread in this lifetime and not have to wait until your after life. I … Continue reading →

As the saying goes, make new friends but keep the old, one is silver and the other, gold.  I have a gold mine. I’m sitting on top of a veritable gold mine of longtime friendships. Thirty or more years of … Continue reading →

Throughout our lives, we go through transitions. Some are small and uneventful while others are colossal and life changing. Some we choose, others are chosen for us, and some just happen… Some are joyful, some can be devastating, some just … Continue reading →

I don’t know how many times I have sent sympathetic texts and responses to pet owners who lost their animals whether to disease, old age, accident… So now we are grappling with what I believe are the last days of … Continue reading →

As we Zoom/ TikTok/ Instagram/ HouseParty/ FaceTime our masked way into the future during the worst pandemic of our lives (for those of us not around during the 1918 flu pandemic), we are offered an ideal opportunity to take stock … Continue reading →

This morning I’m missing Mom so much! As I was getting ready to drink the tea I had just made for myself, an overwhelming sense of loss came over me. I added a little milk and it reminded me of … Continue reading →

More than a decade ago, my pastor, the Rev. Dr. Diane Givens-Moffett, led a bible study at St James Presbyterian Church in Greensboro, North Carolina. On a piece of chart paper, she drew a series of ovals lined up in … Continue reading →

As humans, we pray – pray for love, pray for change, pray for peace of mind, pray for protection, pray for healing, pray for acceptance, for prosperity, for loved ones, for the world, for all manner of things, we pray. … Continue reading →

In the 1958 film, Auntie Mame, played by Rosalind Russell, one of my favorite stars from that period, declares to the boorish banker, “Mr. Babcock, knowledge is power!” This in defense of her young nephew, Patrick Dennis, who is preparing … Continue reading →