Life
This year, December 25th marks the date Christmas is celebrated and the day Hanukkah begins. It weighs heavy on my heart that wars are continuing to rage around the world and that many people of differing religious and political observations and philosophies continue to disagree and exhibit hate towards one another. What if we take
Laura Munson’s new book, Willa’s Grove, is much more than a novel. It’s a map, a template with the potential
Not long ago I watched the film Rumor Has It with Kevin Costner and Jennifer Aniston. Aniston’s character was lamenting
Dear Friends, This will be my last regular blog post for a while because I’m stepping away to work on
I was thinking about the 1975 song by Eric Carmen, “All By Myself,” where the refrain (over and over and
My friend, Pat, uses the term “elderly” when referring to the current state of our high school graduating class. It
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Incase the universe thought it might have slipped my mind that 15 years ago
Over two hundred of Anthony Bourdain’s most cherished belongings are being sold this month—October 9-30, 2019—in an online auction that’s
Serena Crawford is one of my favorite people because her curiosity and interests knows no bounds. I could tell you
I’ve been saying this a lot lately: “If you can’t see it, you can’t fix it.” Sometimes I get frustrated,
This week Jessi Combs, the “fastest woman on four wheels,” car fabricator and TV host of Mythbusters, died in what’s
Brenda recently asked if we still prepare meals. Many readers who left comments said they still enjoyed cooking; a few
“When people ask me why I seem so happy and find it so easy to laugh, I tell them my
I’ve always been comfortable being alone. Perhaps that’s because I was an only child and I’m good at entertaining myself,
I was never one of those kids who knew what they wanted to be when they grew up. Even now
It’s no secret that I love music. My earliest musical memories are of my father, playing clarinet with a Dixieland
Along with watering some of my outdoor plants, twice a day, to keep them from dying in the heat, my
Gone are the days when it was easy for me to go to sleep. In fact, since my late 30’s,