Patti Lawson's Blog

• Off Course

  January 13, 2009

  • Last week Sadie and I escaped to an island of the coast of North Carolina. We needed to rest…to reflect…to feel the sea air and let the endless sound of the ocean cover all the thoughts that run through my mind these days. I think of Liz. I think of her lying in her hospital bed…I think of where she could be had we listened to the misguided at best…but overwhelmingly incompetent doctors ...
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• Split Second Tragedy-Comfort in Dog Years

  October 10, 2008

  • My sister Liz is eating tropical fruit salad tonight…not in the tropics though…from a container in a refrigerator in a nursing home…a place she lives now. A place where she never planned to spend any time…a place she didn’t fill out a change of address for. She has no choice here except to rely on the comfort and care of strangers….and often that reliance brings her only frustration, ...
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• Let Sleeping Dogs lie...Take Barking Ones to Day Care

  July 28, 2008

  •        Sadie and I sold our house. The packing, scavenging for boxes, sales, and decisions seemed like they would never end, but they did and there we were alone in a big empty house the night before the closing. We used the foam mattress topper and the comforters and bedding that we weren’t taking with us to make a little nest for sleeping on the floor of the empty and now cavernous ...
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• Small Spaces Require Big Hearts

  May 18, 2008

  •      Sadie and I have downsiized. When the opportunity came to sell our house...that was way too big for just the two of us...we took it. Maybe we are guilty of leaping before looking, but the deal is done...the moving sale over...all the taping and packing and lugging and tugging...done... and now we just walk by our former house and don't go in.      I was worried since we have only ...
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• Passion about What You Know...and Write

  March 23, 2008

  •     I used to  try to teach people how to write...well they were high school students who most of the time didn't act like "people" but needless to say it paid the bills...at first...and then it became more. Trying to keep the attention of a room crammed full of teenagers while you discuss the finer points of essay writing is a challenge at best...impossible more often than ...
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