Dec 22, 2025
The year I turned eight, we spent Christmas with Grandma Long. She was my mother’s mother. She was very old, close to a hundred in fact. As a bride of the Great Depression, she’d birthed seven children at home and lost three of them to diseases I was vaccinated for. Mother said their deaths had changed her heart.
I...
Nov 16, 2025
Night Vision
I have awful night vision.
And with the end of Daylight Savings Time, the darkness feels really dark, and it always arrives before I’m ready for it.
But, my elderly Jack Russell, Mr. Pip,
HAS TO HAVE a late-night constitutional if I want an accident-free dawn. So, every night I bundle up against...
Aug 31, 2025
I was searching for quiet amidst all the noise: Yet another tariff, more school violence, inflation, wars.
The scorching heat of our record-breaking summer had broken. A shy coolness was in the air.
I’d washed the sheets, and since I love the smell of sunshine, I took them outside to dry on the line.
And that’s when...
Aug 14, 2025
I was in the beautiful land of Canada this past week where I learned the power of friendship, and the price we pay for broken relationships.
Jul 29, 2025
It's hot. Oh, and it's humid, too! That must mean the dog-days of summer are here.
I volunteer at the animal shelter and the dogs there are all wanting the same thing we are: to belong.
We all want to belong to a pack, it's instinctual and necessary. And we all want a leader who makes wise decisions and takes everyone...