by Tina Roggenkamp

It’s been a minute, I know. Busy with life, busy with work! I had a dream last night that I was with my aunt, her husband, and my step-father. My mother let her mask slip to my aunt - I can’t recall what she did but my aunt finally saw what I’d been talking about over the years. Anyway, that won't ever happen. Where were we? March 5, 2023 - I got my father to do a zoom call instead of facebook. Back then we still had the free zoom accounts that limit you to 40 minutes per ca

Today I want to share some of the conversations with my father. Most of this happened via facebook messenger and I have saved these texts in case anything happened. Until today I have not re-read them but here we go! My reactions are in bold. 2/25/23 in a Facebook message he said none of his grandkids are clamoring to meet him. He said a couple are “tolerant with no real interest” and the others are “ambivalent distant”. This was our first day of talking and I didn’t see red

Remember this post from last September? Yeah, that box of squares is still sitting in my craft room. It's actually worse than this. I crocheted even more squares and the box is overflowing! I have a ton of yarn just sitting and now that I can knit and crochet again, I think I'll put these squares together to make a few blankets. I found out that our local library is a Project Linus drop off location! I can also knit or crochet more blankets with the unused bins of yarn I have