All week long, I've been ruminating on what it means to be halfway. Halfway through this year. Halfway to reaching this...

Day 188: My husband and I are the same age. Well, I’m three months older - a fact he has yet to quit mentioning in 32 years of marriage -...

Day 187: It is Foodsday of Halfway Week, and since I spent Wednesday eating whatever delectable Independence Day thing I wanted, this...

Did everyone enjoy their Independence Day yesterday? I certainly hope you did. As we ate ALL the food, and listened to ALL the...

Day 185: Happy Independence Day! And Happy Halfway through Halfway Week! Today I am reminded of my mother’s many stories of our ancestors...

Day 184: Yesterday I pinned a big ol’ notice to the towel about it being HALF WAY through the year. We’re all pretty tuned into the...

Day 183: Half Way. I hesitate to point this out, but we are HALF WAY today. Half way through 2018. That means I am half way to meeting...

Day 182: My mother loved little purple pansies. They were always growing in the flower bed closest to the back door. She said they...

Day 181: e. e. cummings said “The most wasted of days is the one without laughter,” and today I am saying “The most wasted of Smatterdays...

Day 180: One of the many things my mama taught me was that we need laughter most when it’s the hardest to accomplish. Across the ages, we...

Day 179: I just passed a student in the hall sporting a tee shirt that said “I’m only here because Hogwarts doesn’t accept FAFSA.” Every...

Day 178: There are weeks I plan ahead and know what the theme will be, and other weeks when I go with the flow, but this week seems to...

Day 177: This morning began with a near-death experience. There was a car accident slowing traffic on the way to work and the driver...

Day 176: They call today Leon Day. Why? Because LEON is NOEL spelled backward. It’s like the dance we had in high school called MORP...

Day 175: Yesterday I mentioned that we’d replaced the lock set on our front door. The old latch had stopped latching, letting the door...

Day 174: It’s a sunshiny Smatterday! For those of you who weren’t around in January when I unveiled my dweeby definitions, Smatterday is...

Day 173: I’ve been talking about Sunshine and positivity this week, and today is no different. It’s a sunny day here, and I’m spending it...

Day 172: Hello, Summertime! Today is the first day of summer. It is also National Daylight Appreciation Day. We are urged to appreciate...

Day 171: It is Wordsday in my Towel World today. It is also my 32nd wedding anniversary, so all the words I heard on this day 32 years...

Day 170: Today is Juneteenth, a fact I learned from my mom in the early eighties after she’d watched a documentary on PBS. She explained...