Author Archives: mamaleger

Ever heard of the ripple effect? According to Dictionary.com it is “a spreading effect or series of consequences caused by a single action or event.” When my husband died it set off a ripple effect that I could not have foreseen. It started with making decisions I felt ill equipped to make while dealing withContinue reading “Ripples”

My dad was a quirky man. He used to do some pretty funny things….like the way he tied his shoelaces. He wasn’t allowed to teach us that skill because my mom said we would never have learned! He also had a certain routine he did every time he left the house. My sisters and brotherContinue reading “Stick & Stones”

Sometimes you just have to sit and listen to the “oldies.” By that I mean the music you grew up listening to. Those songs bring back so many memories, every song attached to some moment in your past. My sisters and I started out with 8 tracks! As we got more sophisticated, we progressed toContinue reading “Musical Notes”

It’s hard to feel like you’re on the outside. Like you don’t fit in. I worked in one place for 28 and a half years. I was comfortable. Everyone knew me and liked me (I think!) We shared our lives and our stories and were there for each other. Dunkin’ runs were nearly inevitable onContinue reading “Demoted”

What does it take to make you happy? For some it takes a lot. But for me, well, I love the simple things; the smell of a fresh mown lawn after a long winter, the salty ocean air that hangs over the waves that are welcomed by the sandy shore, the sound of my childrenContinue reading “Moments of Happiness”

In Ecclesiastes 3:3 you will find the words “a time to heal.” That’s what these past five weeks have been for me; a time to heal, to reset after coming out of a stressful time in my life where I was beginning to hate everything. I wanted and needed change. I was starting to goContinue reading “Time to Heal”

One of the hardest decisions I’ve ever had to make was to lay my horses to rest. One by one the time came for a choice to be made. I agonized for months trying to make the best choice for them. People would assure me that “You’re doing the right thing” but it didn’t feelContinue reading “Hoofprints on My Heart”

My son was recently at our old house to get some items that had been left behind. He walked through the house and the barn that are now empty. Empty that is except for the many memories that continue to live there. On my last day there I too walked through the house, barn andContinue reading “Salt Water”

When I was growing up things were different. You had to figure things out. We learned to cook from scratch and combed through encyclopedias at the library to do school reports (God forbid someone else had the book you needed)! We looked up numbers in the phone book. And if you wanted to talk toContinue reading “User Friendly”

When my husband died my world crashed. I went through that first week without knowing what day it was. Once my children went back home, I sat in my house wondering why. Why had this happened? I told myself it was my fault. I had pushed him too hard and hadn’t been a good wife.Continue reading “GET UP!!”