by Tina Roggenkamp

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

Where was I? It’s been a while since I wrote on this - busy with work, kids, kittens, life. Y’all know how it goes. On February 26, 2023 I can see where I chatted with my half-sister by text. Around 1:30 in the afternoon I messaged her to say I hoped she was having a good day. We talked about the weather where we each live and she sent me some photos from where she was living. She said she’d lived near or on the beach, but moved in January for a change of scenery. The previ