One of the things I will miss most as the warm weather comes to an end is something a lot of people dread: mowing the yard. I love it...
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I can be a bit obsessive. I know this will probably not come as a big shock to those who know me or have been kind enough to read my...
After so many trips to the DMV I expected a bench in our name, my fifteen-and-a-half year old daughter, Chloe, finally passed her driver’s...
I don’t have a lot of hard and fast rules I live by. I try to be a good person. I believe kindness is essential and I try to act with that...
My husband, Justin, had a dentist appointment several days ago to replace a broken crown. At dinner time that night, as I prepped the...
My daughter recently went away to school. It has been a big adjustment for us all. I miss her dearly. She has been better at calling and...
My husband cannot, for the life of him, sing a correct song lyric. The extreme wrongness of the words he chooses instead of the actual ones...
Larry McMurtry is my favorite author. He has been for nearly three decades. We lost his genius last year. It still makes me sad to know...
There are two things we don’t deserve in this world: Dogs and Dolly Parton. Both are full of love, kindness and a giving spirit. Since I...
I stared at this blank page for several minutes, realizing I feel the same about writing this week as I do about this phase of my life:...