Mom was eating a personal-pan-pizza I bought her for lunch when she made her big announcement.  She said she wasn’t going to drive much...

My son John is tall and handsome.  Smart too.  Lest you think I’m just a biased mother, I’m also going to say that John is so tone deaf...

(Who are the Millennials?  Why do techy people like nature?  How did fighting with our parents’ generation make us better?) “They may not...

Before the coronavirus raised its ugly head and scared everyone away from the city, I lived there part-time while I taught at a local...

“Oh,” I laughed nervously, “I think I’ll pass”. My date, a thin hairy guy, reached across me to give the bong to the person sitting on...

“No you didn’t,” I took a sip of my hot coffee.  “You snored all night.” “That wasn’t a snore.  That was me grunting, trying to keep up...

Maybe my fondness for this book’s title has to do with the fact that I once was an easterner.  Like many transplants, I lived other...

What’s so great about mindfulness? It seems like almost every day I see an article online or in my news feed that has something to do...

We might know our height and weight, even our blood cholesterol levels, but do we know our life stage?  Or do we even care?  In my late...

It’s good to remember in times like these that life will go on after this viral pandemic is through.  It might be a different life, but...

Jack, a tall, slim nurse, probably close to thirty, tapped the veins in my mother’s arm looking for a good one to attach an IV.  Though...

I’ve always found cemeteries interesting. The first time I went to Europe I lost my passport wandering in a cemetery outside Exincourt, a...

“Hey!” I holler across to them.  “Don’t you guys know you can only go barefoot on months that don’t have the letter “R” in their name? ...

But I’ve had other songs stuck in my head before. For a few years, at odd moments, like when I was boiling eggs or sorting through my...

While I was dusting the rental house, control though, suddenly became a big problem. I heard a loud thud upstairs followed by my husband...

Wes is Dying My father-in-law Wes, is 97 year old and dying. It’s time and maybe, past time. He was born in November of 1921, three years...

I’d never been to Niagara Falls but I’ve been to Shoshone Falls, and how different could they be anyway? Shoshone Falls is spectacular...

Since Covid-19, some people enjoy the variety of working from home.  They feel better about the “drudgery factor” related to their daily...

My adult son, John, came home for a visit and told me, “Ignore anything I say that sounds off—it’s my suppressed-narcissistic-rage...

In 1960 my second-grade teacher was an older woman named Mrs. Peterson. Sometimes she’d stand over me as I worked at my desk and pat my...