On the third day of Christmas, a Christmas memory gave to me, Mom's Three Ps. My mother used to say of discouraging times, "That took the...

On the second day of Christmas, a Christmas memory gave to me, two one-dollar bills. My parents had many Christmas traditions. One of the...

There are twelve days left until Christmas. Twelve days left to enjoy the Christmas spirit. It has been a little more difficult for me...

Do you have a mental dock? How's September looking from there? When I was a teenager, and I saw those magnifying makeup mirrors at...

Over the first weekend in August, we went camping in what was loosely themed our third annual family retreat - “loosely” because (1) a...

The last week has offered an endless stream of examples for me. Examples of moving forward. My daughter and her husband ran a 9-mile race...

Tomorrow is Halfway Day. It’s fine. I’m fine. I’d like to ask 2019 what happened, but it’s only half there right now. Best to just leave...

Oh, May 13, what a complicated relationship we have. On one hand, you are the day my sister called to tell me our mother had passed away....

I’ve just spent the last three days at a writing conference I’ve never attended before. I was a newbie. A first-timer. Because I am an...

In the middle of the night last night, I sat in the Labor and Delivery Waiting Room with David, watching my phone for the notification of...

Part One For those of you who have had occasion to approach me from my left, you know I don’t have any peripheral vision on that side,...

I do it a lot. I use a word I’ve used a gazillion times, and suddenly it sounds so weird, I find myself typing it into the Search Bar and...

Do you ever pick up the phone to call your mom because you knew she’d get it? I hope you have a mom who gets it. I have a mom who got it,...

Someone said to me this week, “You’re a bit day-obsessed, aren’t you?” “I am?” “Each chapter of your series was a day, and this book,”...

Happy Day!! Happy Day!! I hope you all have a Happy Day!! Historically, I’ve filled these days with heart-shaped food and messages on...

See that cute boy smiling into the camera? That’s my grandson, Sawyer. He’s our oldest grandchild, and he celebrated his 6th birthday...

If earthbound, today would be my mother’s 92nd birthday, although, she would probably claim it’s her 39th birthday. She was notoriously...

January is change in the air; crisp and cool and full of possibility, and we only have one week left! For me, January is the month for...

My dad refused to be rushed. In most cases, he thought before he spoke. As a youngster, I sometimes took his silent consideration to mean...

Yesterday I wrote about my dad-in-law on what would’ve been his 100th birthday. I mentioned his fight with Alzheimer’s, and the brutal...