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Mar 11
5 min

This Old Guitar

I do not play the guitar. But if I did, "This Old Guitar" would be one of the first tunes I'd strum. There's a melancholy sweetness...

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Carolyn Lackey

Dec 23, 2020
3 min

Cha-Cha-Cha

Alan often tells me that when he's gone, I'll miss all of the little irritating things he does that make me roll my eyes. Cabinets left...

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Carolyn Lackey

Dec 12, 2020
3 min

Sucker Punch

Grief is just the darnedest thing. One minute you're sitting there eating a ham sandwich feeling happy as a clam, and the next minute...

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Carolyn Lackey

Oct 14, 2020
2 min

The Last Errand

I stood in the back room of a flower shop where "the magic happens" when it hit me. This would be the last errand I would ever run with...

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Carolyn Lackey

Aug 11, 2020
1 min

Meems' Celebration Information

Link: Helen's Celebration FF to 15:00. The link will be available for a couple of weeks. Enjoy! cel

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Carolyn Lackey

Aug 8, 2020
3 min

The Sweetest Day

Yesterday was amazing. The air was cool. The fountain was gurgling. I was surrounded by three people who knew my mother the very best...

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Carolyn Lackey

Jul 31, 2020
4 min

It's All in the Packaging

Yesterday, I did something new. I gift-wrapped my mother. Let me explain. Alan went by the funeral home to pick up "Meems." That was...

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Carolyn Lackey

Jul 29, 2020
5 min

Enjoying a Cup of Coffee

Mom's home on Rockview Drive in Waco had a garage-turned-screened-in-porch that overlooked her lush backyard. The reason I know that the...

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Carolyn Lackey

Jul 24, 2020
6 min

This Week's Journey

So this week it happened. Meems relinquished her withered and worn little body and entered into the full glory of God. On Tuesday, July...

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Carolyn Lackey

May 31, 2020
3 min

365 Days

This marks the eve of the 365-day anniversary of Meems' "Transitioning" to Heaven. On March 16th, 2020 I decided to no longer kiss her...

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Carolyn Lackey

May 20, 2020
3 min

Goulash

"How does goulash sound for when it's my turn to make Sunday night supper for the youth group?" Meems was like that. She planned her...

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Carolyn Lackey

Apr 14, 2020
2 min

An Easter to Remember

I didn't decorate the house for Easter this year which is saying a lot because I have amassed a considerable amount of vintage Easter...

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Carolyn Lackey

Apr 3, 2020
4 min

Five Good Things Revisited

[I wrote this in 2015 just after I moved Mom into memory care which is its own kind of quarantine. It reminds me to look for the good...

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by Carolyn Lackey

Mar 19, 2020
3 min

What a Day of Rejoicing it Will Be

Many of you have asked how Meems is doing and whether or not I've been able to visit her. She spends each day in a state of suspended...

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by Carolyn Lackey

Feb 24, 2020
3 min

How it All Began

My mother met Leonard in September of 2010. I wrote this blog post in April of 2011. It marked the beginning of a dear, dear...

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by Carolyn Lackey

Jan 12, 2020
2 min

94

On Thursday, January 9, 2020, Helen Katherine Williams Kinzbach, aka The Meems, turned 94 years old. NINE-TEE-FOUR. It was a low-key...

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by Carolyn Lackey

Dec 15, 2019
4 min

The Sameness of Every Day

We sat in a park watching our toddlers sliding down the small red plastic slide and scooting through the little yellow tunnel. As...

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by Carolyn Lackey

Oct 21, 2019
3 min

Crown Jewels

But first...many of you have tentatively asked how Meems is doing. I say "tentatively" because it's been a while since my last update,...

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Carolyn Lackey

Sep 6, 2019
3 min

Absent

That was then. This is most of the time. People often ask me how Meems is doing. I need to start pulling out my phone and showing this...

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Carolyn Lackey

Jul 1, 2019
2 min

Imposter

Yesterday, I entered Mom’s cozy little room, set down the insulated fabric picnic hamper that now serves as my embroidery basket, and...

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The Meems

Becoming

by Carolyn Lackey