Day 169: It’s Monday Mullday in my Towel World. Mondays are weird. It’s a new beginning. A fresh start. Yet, for some reason, I usually...

Day 168: Happy Father’s Day to these men who have shaped my definition of fatherhood. Hands on. Heart full. My dad was a stake patriarch...

Day 167: What a Smatterday for our Week of Dad! A reunion of Longhursts, celebrating my husband’s parents’ posterity, a tour of his farm,...

Day 166: For this Foodsday of Week of Dad, I must share food memories. I didn’t know my dad could cook until my mom got sick. Then I...

Day 165: It is Thanksday of my Week of Dad. I’m very aware of the fact that not everyone was blessed with an awesome father, so I thank...

Day 164: One of the things I loved about my dad was his quiet advice. More than once he said to me “Nobody ever got any good out of being...

Day 163: Today is Towelsday in my TowelWorld, and it’s also Fathers Week, which means I am pinning something to Mom’s company towels that...

Day 162: Have you ever walked into a gift shop where they sell cute little sayings on cute little plaques, and after browsing for five...

Day 161: It has been a Week of Wishes—fishes wishes, birthday wishes, bus ride wishes, elbow grease wishes, and realizing when ‘I wish’...

Day 160: Life is a parade! It’s a metaphor in progress, since I’m watching a parade as I write this. Some days we accomplish something...

Day 159: It’s Wishes Week, and my husband’s birthday, and we started the celebration with a contingent of hot air balloons flying...

Day 158: Perdiddles, eyelashes, and magic lamps. When I was a kid, there was more than one long after-school bus ride devoted to the...

Day 157: I wish? Or, I will? That’s the question for this Wordsday. Charles Dickens, who gave us so many enduring characters who found...

Day 156: My mother used to say “If wishes were fishes . . .” when one of us would wish for something outlandish or unreasonable. I didn’t...

Day 155: The Birthday Wish Loophole My husband’s birthday is this week, but he has always ascertained that it should be a month-long...

Day 154: It has been a week of GOODBYE around here. In Towel World it was about saying goodbye to loved ones, past and future, with the...

Day 153: Have you ever returned to a place from your childhood and felt shocked at how small it is? When I was little, I thought my...

Day 152: HELLO, JUNE!! In my little Towel World, today is the gateway to all things SUMMER! I’ve been saying goodbye to stuff all week,...

Day 151: What a strange day! The end of the month is the signal for me to send out the mass email newsletter I compile for our ward. It...

Day 150: 150 feels like a big number, don’t you think? Here we are, at the end of May with only one more day before June arrives. May was...