But the real treat were her stories, even the scary ones… I spent two or three weeks in the summer at my grandma’s house, usually with my brother along. Mom and dad would drop us off, but we did not mind at all. …

Being sick and still living your best life is very possible… Come see! Every four weeks I go and get an infusion of medicine via an I.V., and while it’s working and I have a good deal less lupus pain and more energy (my family has noticed that part, too)…

A funny thing happened over twenty years time… We moved in, and I discovered an older couple lived next door. We chatted over the fence, and I fell in love with Alice’s British accent. …

When I’m not ready to do so… Why do we do it? What compels us to give our bodies away to the promise of a child, a baby? …

Ways to find friends and be the person others appreciate… I learned so much from moving fifteen times in my life, both as a child and an adult. One either sinks or survives, and to survive life a person usually needs a few friends and more acquaintances who have a…

What you can learn from my days of running/jogging/ walking… I’ve lived a lifetime in my fifty plus years on earth, and while lupus might have had a deft hand in stopping my running, I must confess I was never going to make it to Boston for the marathon. So…

Things that would never happen today to kids… We had a paneled staton wagon in the 1970’s, and sometime my parents didn’t want to deal with three rambunctious kids running around a boring store. They’d leave us in the car with the windows down (we sound like dogs), and my…

How I learned to be a better mom and chef… One beautiful spring day ages ago I put my baby girl down for a nap, while my other daughter attended the school across the street. I tried not to stand in the yard and watch my kid at recess, because…

Finding happiness in unexpected moments… If I open the back door to the porch I won’t be able to think for the sound of the creek rushing past. My house sits on a cliff, so the creek named Hunner’s Run or something close to that is below us quite a…