Audrey J Burton

I think we’ve become a society that has forgotten how to play and have fun. We don’t realize how much play time is important to our growth when we are kids and we’ve forgotten how important it is for our mental, physical, and emotional well -being as adults. When was the last time you squirted someone, or were squirted yourself, with a hose while watering the plants? Played hide and go seek? … [Read more...]

This morning I needed to snail mail my sister in Connecticut. It was a copy of a news article about our great grandmother from when our grandmother was only 15 years old. As I put it into the envelope, I thought, I am not wasting this stamp on just this article. I am going to send a note with it. The note turned into a short letter. A quick, sloppy one because of the shortage of time, but still, … [Read more...]

This coming week marks the end of my fourth year (holy cow!) of blogging on my webpage. 52 weeks a year, sometimes an extra blog thrown in there, adds up to hearing a lot from and about me. 211 blogs, if you count this one. I guess I do have a lot to say! Fortunately, most people I know don’t mind me including them when I write about personal experiences. I try to respect everyone’s feelings and … [Read more...]

I was reminded by my Facebook memories that it was today, in 2012, I was told of the passing of a very dear lady that I’d known all of my married life. I read what I wrote. It said, “I received the news today that a very special person in my life passed away. I had known her for 35 years. She was a friend, a confidante, like a mom to me…anything I needed her to be when I needed someone. The world, … [Read more...]

  A new school year is approaching rapidly. Kids are out scrounging for the school supplies on their classroom lists. It’s a list that becomes pretty costly for the families with more than one child and with the prospect of buying new clothes and shoes looming in the background. From backpacks to disinfecting wipes to highlighters, the lists seem to become longer every year. When I was a kid, I … [Read more...]

For the longest time I felt that love shouldn’t hurt. I was looking at it from the perspective of abuse and have seen articles written about it. It’s true that love shouldn’t hurt in that way. However, real love does hurt and sometimes it takes some really difficult life experiences to understand that. Ask anyone who has lost a child. It’s a pain that can’t be described. Ask the parent who watches … [Read more...]