Point of trip: to divvy up the final remnants of my mother’s life. Mom died in 2014 of dementia. It was a whirlwind horror. She’d hidden...

I just returned from spending a week with my eighty-year-old mom. To say it was depressing is an understatement. Imagine a hermit crab...

Living as a Christian is a dramatically altered course, and I set my sails at age 27. Over the years  I have experienced the excesses of...

Most of my challenges have to do with self esteem. Think about it. When we are out and about and flitting around like butterflies, there...

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. ~ Millicent...

Until last night. The ill-fated and much-delayed financial planning meeting left us so stressed we were tearing at each other’s throats...

I just read an article pertinent to a writer’s life (that would be me as I am busily reinventing) that said if a writer blogs the writer...

Each spring, depending on where I live and for how long, I rush out and buy boatloads and buckets of flowering shrubs, impatiens,...

My heart stopped, and my hand slid over my mouth automatically. I could almost feel the liability issues crushing me in a vise-like...

I am blaming this on Obama. Perhaps the political landscape has become so imbued with universal healthcare rhetoric that veterinarians...

My husband is an even bigger IMAX fan than I am, so when he asked if I wanted to see the latest version of Jack and the Beanstalk (his...

Inserted between my daughter and her two daughters. It is with delight that I watch my kids move into the best times of their lives, and...

Disappointments are to the soul what thunderstorms are to the air. Johann C.F. von Schuller I ran across this marvelous quote recently,...

I no longer think this is possible. I have observed that my husband, when asked a simple question that demands an opinion or a...

“Fire! Fire! AAAAUUUGGGHHH!” I yelled, startled by the intimidating WHOOO-OOSSHHH  behind my back as I  sliced tomatoes, segmented...

Each Christmas I trudge store to store in search of the perfect gifts that will delight, amaze, and astonish. My motives are clearly...

It is not about countless trips to Boscov’s, Belk’s, TJMaxx, Marshal’s, Target, Macy’s, Pier One; anxiously selecting gifts that family...

Just one. Then they might actually have a clue what pain really is. Okay, so my husband has pulled groin muscle. I get it. I am sorry,...

I watched the vice-presidential debate on Thursday night,  and observed – with a kind of morbid fascination –  Joe Biden’s increasingly...

Ye olde Post Office, an American tradition A visit to the Post Office used to be as American as white bread. As hospitable as the Red...