by Lisa Maples | Jul 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
Today, I put together an Animoto video that highlights moments from my summer so far. We’ve been out of school for a month so there’s another month of summer left. I am trying to cherish each day. I’ve posted the video in this blog post below. I...
by Lisa Maples | Jun 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
Image Credit: https://lisamaples.life/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/grss-mow.jpg Just as I became a teenager, Mrs. Oliver, our elderly neighbor in her late seventies, paid me to mow her grass in the summer from 1984 – 1986. Her husband died before we had moved in...
by Lisa Maples | May 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
On a typical summer’s afternoon when I was a young teen, I might lay out in the sun on our lower deck in a folding plastic lawn chair hidden by the huge tomato plants. As the summer went on, I’d get a tan. Mrs. Oliver, our neighbor, liked to visit with my mother...
by Lisa Maples | Apr 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
When I walk through the garage door into my kitchen each day after work, I typically can only see glimpses of the tan and gray granite that was installed a year ago on our kitchen counters and bar. We redesigned our kitchen after the flood in January creating a large...
by Lisa Maples | Mar 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
Jo Knowles, at the website that she and Kate Messner author, inspired me to unlock childhood memories by writing about them. I made a list of words that came to mind when thinking about the house in which I grew up. I specifically focused on the kitchen and then the...
by Lisa Maples | Jan 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
“The next time you see me, I’ll look different!” These were the last words that I spoke to Eric. I yelled my thoughts to Eric as we were getting in the Accord and leaving the family Christmas celebration. The sun shone brightly that day causing me to squint as my...
