22-May-2021

Made mom’s salsa, which is good. First time.

08-May-2021

I put up an ofrenda for my Mom in 2018 and it’s a permanent fixture now. Happy Birthday Phyllis.

09-Aug-2020

Open Graph Protocol Tools updated to version 1.91

It’s been 10 years since I first wrote the Open Graph Protocol Tools WordPress plugin. It was first published to the WordPress Plugin repository on April 28, 2010. It’s a tool that embeds metadata into your WordPress blog so posts and pages that can be parsed by social media. It’s not a particular popular plugin,…

08-May-2019

Remembering my mother on her birthday. That’s her right there! Spirited and positive and a bit of a ham.

01-Nov-2018

First ofrenda ever is for mom. It is the Day of the Dead. We remember those who have moved on and take joy that death is just another part of life.

27-Oct-2018

Day of the Dead

17-Oct-2018

I’m gathering pieces for an Ofrenda. It’s a cultural thing I grew up with only in passing. But it’s 8 years my Mom’s gone this year. And it feels right.

08-May-2018

Lovely Light Mom

I snuck this photo of my Mom, Phyllis Crawford, when visiting Northern Virginia in May 2007. My sister was getting her Master’s Degree and many of us were visiting. I love the light in this photo. And I miss Mom. She would have been 72 today had she not died of cancer in 2010. May 8th…

09-May-2016

Mother’s Day.

1949 1955 1960 1966 1977 1983 1988 1994 2005 These are the years that my Mom, Phyllis Crawford‘s birthday fell on a Sunday, the second Sunday in may — Mother’s Day. In my kid-memory her birthday always fell on Mother’s Day which was just another way she was perfect. But the truth is memory is…

10-May-2013

Choose a Gift for Phyllis

This time of year is hard. Clicking through gets me to a grid of easily purchased items under the headline: “Choose a Gift for Phyllis.” Social media, Facebook, knows who my mother is. It’s smart enough to know that. And in spite of the fact that she died in October, 2010, I can’t bear, yet,…