It’s been a hot minute since my last very post, which was a stressed out, verbose and ragey rant. This year has been a whirlwind of activity; a constant go-go-go with all the feelings., this year has been well lived! It has been terribly sad, extremely joyful, overwhelming, peaceful, beautiful, messy, scary and full of …
Last year Jennifer and I decided that 2016 was going to be the year we purchased our first home. We prequalified in late March and then started our search in early June. The market was really tough for us to navigate. Homes that we liked/placed offers on were getting scooped up right up; low inventory …
It seems like we just blinked and then our dog was old. Really. I mean she’s been slower for some time and gray around the muzzle and sleepier than usual but it seems like all of the sudden, in a literal blink of an eye her age caught up with her. A few nights ago …
It’s about 5:30 am the morning after Christmas and I’m sitting in the Daddy chair watching Hard Time on Nat Geo. There is a cat (Squirrel) on my left and the Christmas Tree is on and illuminating yesterday’s loot. The seedy carnage of a catnip toy is making me cringe spread thinly all over the …
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love. -Washington Irving. Lucy was born just north of the intersection of Main & Lowell streets in Manchester, …
If 2012 was a pretty good year than 2013 really was amazing. It could also be aptly described by my blogs namesake: Simply Abundant.
I’m not so sure why I find it necessary to write and blog my year-in-review but after beginning the tradition last year, when I was searching my memory banks very hard for anything precious and good that had happened I realized just how gratifying this small cognitive act can be. Now that I am …
I am relaxing in a quiet, cozy home drinking a glass of nice wine (Rascal, a Pinot Noir from Oregon) and listening to Damien Rice. Lover is out for drinks with a friend and I am contemplating a eulogy for my carnival goldfish that lived for 7 full years. I won that damn goldfish at …
I haven’t updated about Petunia in eons and I’d like to say that’s because she’s doing very well, which, I am happy to report, she is! I’ve also been über busy with everything else that’s going on, maybe they call that life? Whatever it is, I am most certainly grateful for it, for I know …
Petunia has been on the steroid prednisone since she was diagnosed with cancer on Monday. Her appetite has increased and she has a coy little tail swish going on. She also had her first chemotherapy appointment yesterday and all went well, she did great. They treated her with Vincristine, a broad spectrum chemotherapy drug. She …
everything lovely & good 