Author Archives: loriadams12

It is a crystal clear sky, deep, cloudless, calm. The sun dominates the scenery, the true star of the show. It’s that beautiful new spring day when the dreariness of winter has been blown aside by spring breezes and the peeking promise of summer. I climb up into my jeep, lovingly named Daisy Jane, theContinue reading “Lost and Found”

Although I am in love with everything Spring, there is one day each year that sets my soul on fire. It happens after the last frost has tried to delay the season yet again, when the thick Southern pollen has stopped coating cars and driveways, and when the whole world is a bright Granny SmithContinue reading “Room to Grow”

My husband has a reputation with trees. He wants them cleared. All of them. Gone. It baffles me, and has outright angered me in the past. In our previous home, our back lot was very wooded. Yes, it could get messy, especially in an endless fall of leaves each autumn, but it also provided beautifulContinue reading “No Pushover”

I look up from my work and smile. She has taken over the yoga mat and sleeps peacefully in the sunbeam, as if the ray of light and warmth was created only for her. She is never far. She spends her days dutifully following me from space to space. She greats me each morning asContinue reading “Being Like Bess”

As one who is always looking for a good reason to celebrate, it comes as a shock to my friends and family that I hate Valentine’s Day.  Well, ok, hate is a bit strong, but I really don’t like it.  It seems incongruent to them that someone who lives her life to love others hasContinue reading “Living Love”

On a warm, misty morning several years ago, following the first recurrence of my best friend’s cancer, we sat in our jammies, opposite sides of the sofa with toes touching under a blanket, holding steaming cups of coffee, and pondering what lay ahead. “ I don’t know what’s coming this time, “ she said, “butContinue reading “Futuring and Adventuring”

Any parent with more than one child knows the “Gotcha” game. The kids are strapped safely into the back seat, and Child A begins poking Child B, Child B screams about the unfairness of it while poking back at Child A, poking turns into swatting, and swatting turns into hitting and ……yeah, it’s a mess.Continue reading “Gotcha”

Years ago, my husband and I completed a huge jigsaw puzzle entitled “Doors of the World”. It was a collage of doorways of different sizes, shapes and colors. I was drawn in by the colors, as color tend to be what always calls my name first. Yet as we tediously worked piece by piece, IContinue reading “Thresholds”

One of my favorite times of the whole year is the week between Christmas and New Year. With most of the bustle of Christmas is behind us, there is an almost mystical lull. It seems to be in these liminal days I become both reflective, sentimental, hopeful and forward-thinking all mixed together. It’s probably theContinue reading “Lessons from 2020”

I believe we were born to create. I didn’t always believe that.  Just a few years ago, if you’d asked me if I was a creative person, I would laughed heartily while emphatically shaking my head  no.  The “no” came quickly and adamantly because while I can spend hours mesmerized in a museum I cannotContinue reading “Creative Souls”