“When you guys are grown, I’m getting an apartment in the city, overlooking the lake. I’ll have white carpet and a Dalmatian to keep me company. I’ll come to your house for Thanksgiving and Christmas.” That was my we-gotta-get-this-house-clean-company-is-coming frustration fantasy, when all four of my kids were teens. That was when the five of …
Plenty of little girls idolize their moms, but Adela Crandall Durkee’s sweet story reminds us that dads are pretty cool too! Read more from Adela on her blog. When I was a little girl, I really, really wanted to be like dad. Perhaps it was because dads went off to work. Perhaps it was because dads, are, well, …
A touching long-form reflection on father daughter relationships from Adela Crandell Durkee. Read more from Adela on her blog, The Black Tortoise Many of us face Father’s Day without our Dads. Even for an adult, the process of losing of a father can leave us adrift and bereft. On an intellectual level, we know it’s inevitable, …
Adela Crandell Durkee would choose her mother over any other. Read more from Adela on her blog, The Black Tortoise. One time Mom asked me who I would want for a mother if I didn’t have her. Right off I said my best friend Connie’s mother, then I stopped and thought about it a minute. …
Adela Crandell Durkee’s mother had a silent heart attack. Adela is sharing her mother’s story for American Heart Health Month – Go Red. Read more from Adela on her blog, The Black Tortoise Fourteen years ago, Dr. P diagnosed Dad with liver cancer. Sometime in the next six months, the six months we had …
