“The jackal went streaking past me while I held the irrigation pipe!” Christopher Robin told me, as wide-eyed and innocent as the...

Recently, both the University of Georgia and the University of Alabama, unlike other colleges who’ve gone online, are dealing with...

What can I say?  Last summer at this time I was reading a prize-winning book about brain chemistry, and this summer I’m into fat and...

Ill winds have been part of my history—and as a matter of fact, greater Chicago too. I grew up not too far from the “windy city” in...

Did I mention the temperature outside according to my car dash read 95 degrees? I muttered to myself as I stalked along. How could I be...

It was a family mystery I attempted to solve several years ago when I visited ninety-five year old Uncle Clay.  Clay was the only one...

There’s an old jazz standard entitled “Summertime” and it’s most well-known and oft repeated line is: “Summertime…and the livin’ is...

People find all kinds of ways to cope during difficult times. The plague of coronavirus coupled with the anger and divisiveness that’s...

I was floating in the heated pool at the Sun Valley Lodge when I heard protesters in the parking lot shout, “Black lives matter!!  Black...

Today, alcoholism is classified as a disease, and a certain segment of alcoholics prefer to manage their addiction as opposed to fully...

Like most people, I’m a hapless headmower at best.  I didn’t let my shortcomings deter me from cutting my husband’s hair though.  His...

One of my cherished morning rituals, when I couldn’t get my kids out of bed to go to school, was to blast Guns N’ Rose’s “Welcome to the...

Liver and onions?  Really?  A friend told me about this women serving a dinner of liver and onions to a man on their first date. The...

The Flannel Graph board was mounted on an easel, and as Sister Gibson recounted the Bible story, she’d press paper cut-out Bible figures...

Circle the wagons!  We’re in retreat!  This wagon (me) has been circling and circling my living room the past couple weeks, building...

“What’s with people hoarding toilet paper?” my daughter asked me over the phone. She’d called to check up on her dad. “I’m not sure. ...

No, it wasn’t a dream, but I felt dazed, like I’d taken too long a nap. Maybe I time traveled because I’d spent part of this winter in a...

Reportedly, Stu spent many hours in the hotel hot tub waiting for the call from Hollywood. But motels are mainly built for transient...

I really didn’t miss winter this year.  It wasn’t until I drove to Leadore, Idaho, a town I’d never visited, that I was reminded of the...

I have friends and relatives though, that want nothing to do with eating meat—for a variety of reasons. Some have become vegetarian or...