Chapter Twenty: Minks and Turkey Basters

by | Nov 11, 2011 | Amazing Grace

Within a few weeks of the baby’s arrival, Mother and Grandmother decided to go back to the Farm.  I didn’t want to go, because I couldn’t stand to be around Mother’s husband.  Buck was such a whiner and sniveler that within ten minutes of being...

Chapter Nineteen: The World’s Most Beautiful Baby

by | Nov 11, 2011 | Amazing Grace

Nowadays sexual harassment on the job is grounds for legal action and could bring financial advantage to the woman who wants early retirement.  But when I worked for Doc such options were still on the horizon.  The incident with the doctor made me wonder again just...

Chapter Eighteen: The Wolf and the Dove

by | Nov 11, 2011 | Amazing Grace

The bizarre synchronicity of Eva’s appearance, for the second time, on the scene of my imminent demise is, of course, a curious matter.  I am reminded of Lama Sing’s description of her as “your ally in this life”. When Eva saw the hose in the...

Chapter Seventeen: Mirror! Mirror! On the Wall…

by | Nov 11, 2011 | Amazing Grace

It’s amazing how our emotions can drive our thinking.  Grant was my soul mate and I’d never be happy with anyone else.  That’s how I interpreted the reading by Lama Sing through Al Miner.  But we’d both apparently screwed up in some way.  Until...

Chapter Sixteen: Dances with Sunlight

by | Nov 11, 2011 | Amazing Grace

What do you do when you wish to die and the Universe obviously has other plans?  Argue? Several days later I woke up in the hospital.  My mother was there.  I realized, to my horror, that by my own hand I had confirmed every negative opinion she had ever pronounced...