Dilettante Life – A Writer's Space | Ehancock | Activity https://dilettantelife.com/members/ehancock/activity/ Activity feed for Ehancock. Tue, 18 Nov 2025 02:21:46 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 423c477d3f302bcde0ce8d349eec7d98 Ehancock posted a new activity comment https://dilettantelife.com/2022/09/26/hard-to-say-goodbye/#comment-509 Mon, 26 Sep 2022 20:24:23 -0400 So touching.

In reply to - Jo Toale wrote a new post You died on a Monday.  I saw you that morning struggling to breath.  I’m so thankful to have given you a kiss as you slept.  The last kiss I would ever give you.  Oh, how many times had w […] ]]> 61c3a6d992d2d0c0bab216b1e925e176 Ehancock wrote a new post https://dilettantelife.com/?p=5348 Thu, 18 Aug 2022 20:13:38 -0400 My senior year in high school was, shall we say, adventurous. I was not a popular, cheerleader type but I wasn’t totally unredeemable either. Me and my clique of six swam in the middle. I liked that; it was s […]

]]> 0 8a6ff2106d122654c6a0529e68af2dab Ehancock wrote a new post https://dilettantelife.com/?p=5343 Tue, 16 Aug 2022 01:32:47 -0400 She had packed, re-packed and packed again.  The day was finally here.  At the last minute she grabbed a rayon dress and rolled it and slid it in the side of her one piece of luggage.  Just in case.

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]]> 0 6a7f89fce94420053f458f6bfaa8fbeb Ehancock posted a new activity comment https://dilettantelife.com/2022/07/11/its-6-oclock-somewhere/#comment-476 Mon, 11 Jul 2022 13:16:47 -0400 Oh how I miss that gentle ebb and flow. Thanks for the memory

In reply to - Jo Toale wrote a new post At 6 o’clock the summer sun filters everything around you, turning objects into versions of themselves that seem totally unreal.  Trees lining the water’s edge look like watercolors and th […] ]]> 0226a42966d9d09c653e739c9f785cad Ehancock posted a new activity comment https://dilettantelife.com/2022/02/25/i-sigh/#comment-446 Fri, 25 Feb 2022 21:40:30 -0500 🥰

In reply to - Jo Toale wrote a new post I sigh when things are done.  No more to do.  It’s over. I sigh when things go wrong.  What can I do now?  Let me think. I sigh when I’m happy.  So many possibilities.  Can it ge […] ]]> 995aac794500744ba65a194f38c06c29 Ehancock posted a new activity comment https://dilettantelife.com/2022/02/21/autobiography-in-five-short-chapters/#comment-442 Tue, 22 Feb 2022 14:20:57 -0500 Very good! Keep dodging those holes and maybe in time fill them in? 👍

In reply to - Jo Toale wrote a new post Poem by Portia Nelson from the book “Life is Messy” by Matthew Kelly I I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost…I am helpless. It isn’t my […] ]]> 413f61db186dd5f3a7c46e867ee6b9fe Ehancock posted a new activity comment https://dilettantelife.com/2019/10/26/oh-we-had-such-fun/#comment-438 Sat, 26 Oct 2019 19:05:53 -0400 Loved this! Waiting for the next installment of the series?

In reply to - kevin davitt wrote a new post It was Sunday – a very hot Sunday and the neighborhood was quiet. The heat created a veil – almost void of air or sound. The only noise came from air conditioners humming and whirring […] ]]> d785b6847960e91da5231db3a4efc30c Ehancock posted a new activity comment https://dilettantelife.com/2019/10/24/shelter-in-place/#comment-436 Thu, 24 Oct 2019 01:37:33 -0400 True and true! The most grateful creatures on the planet. Thanks for the heartfelt pen.

In reply to - Jo Toale wrote a new post I recommend that you get rescued.  That is, when looking for a dog, let them rescue you.  Sure, there are boutique and purebred dogs that need homes, no doubt.  But, no one abandoned th […] ]]>