Counting blessings and counting candles
"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?"
-- Satchel Page
It's an interesting question and one I know the answer...
Hoarder on wheels
"You know those people who get lost in the mountains and have to live on ice for three days? That will never be you,...
She’s come undone
It has come to my attention after 16 years in residence in this particular old house, I can no longer refer to any project...
Parenting imperfect people
Every once in a very great while I receive the kind of mail that says something along the lines of "Your family is so...
In sickness and health
There is a common misconception that women are stalwart in sickness while men take to bed with even a minor case of the sniffles....
Tech talk and Siri
I would like to thank modern technology for that awkward moment when I was conducting very important business and Brick House piped out of...
Putting on your game face
Our son is a brand new freshman soccer player and, as a result, I suspect the entire team feels like they are being hounded...
Call me. Maybe.
I don't know when our home phone got demoted, but it did. It used to be the ringing of the home phone was like...
And then, along came a spider
Just when I think it's safe to leave the house, nature, not content to menace me IN MY OWN HOME decides to take the...
At son’s high school orientation, they forgot to give me key information
I have had the date for high school orientation on my calendar for six weeks. I kept avoiding and ignoring it -- as if by refusing to acknowledge its existence, I would never have to attend.
