Carolyn Lackey
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...
top of page
Becoming
the
Meems
the transformation is complete. I've become my mother.
by carolyn lackey
Becoming
Meems
the
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...
436 views1 comment
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...
611 views7 comments
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...
557 views3 comments
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...
242 views0 comments
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...
195 views0 comments
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...
193 views0 comments
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...
128 views0 comments
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...
133 views0 comments
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...
125 views0 comments
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...
119 views0 comments
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,...
129 views0 comments
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...
167 views0 comments
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...
136 views0 comments
Carolyn Lackey
- Jun 20, 2019
- 3 min
The Solitude of Stitchery
I did something rather odd this morning. I trudged upstairs to the attic, retrieved a wrinkled, ancient chambray shirt from the...
96 views0 comments
Carolyn Lackey
- Jun 14, 2019
- 5 min
Eleven Lives
I was fifteen years old the first time that I thought that my mother was at death's door. It was the summer of 1971. Mom had just come...
137 views0 comments
by Carolyn Lackey
- Jun 5, 2019
- 3 min
Mama Cammareri
The breath had almost totally left her body. She was as white as snow. And then she completely pulled back from death and stood up and...
186 views0 comments
by Carolyn Lackey
- Jun 1, 2019
- 4 min
Finding the Funny
My sister, Kathy, taught me to "find the funny" in life. Back in the day, we laughed with each other and at each other until we...
236 views0 comments
by Carolyn Lackey
- May 11, 2019
- 5 min
Broken Home
Broken home. I heard those words during homeroom my senior year of high school - 1975 - in reference to me. My face burned hot with...
199 views0 comments
by Carolyn Lackey
- May 3, 2019
- 2 min
Time in a Bottle
This photo sums up Meems' existence. She's become a cuddly lump of blankets in a hushed room with soft rays of sunlight filtering...
94 views0 comments
bottom of page