Day 308: Fall back! Fall back! We’re done saving daylight time! When I complained about this seemingly needless shift of the clock, my...

Day 307: Whenever there was a decision to be made, my mother would suggest making a “Pros and Cons” list. The term comes from the Latin...

Day 306: “Who’s there?” An eerie question. In two words, we feel unease, uncertainty, and perhaps even fear. That is how Shakespeare...

Day 305: Today is Authors Day. November is NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month - where people around the world challenge themselves...

Day 304: Happy Halloween! Back in the old days, when I was one of the trick-or-treating youngsters in Milo, Idaho, there were already...

Day 303: The Weirder Tip for today comes courtesy of my childhood. To make sense of it, permit me to tell you a scary story. On a lovely...

Day 302: Last week was Weird Tips Week, so it only makes sense that Halloween week would be Weirder Tips Week! Mom loved red—all year...

Day 301: To bring this week of weird tips full circle, I’ve been thinking about the ways Mom made the Sabbath Day special. Her Sundays...

Day 300: Movie night! Mom loved caramel corn, but she did NOT like biting down on the Old Maids - you know, the popcorn kernels that...

Day 299: One of Mom’s super useful tips is using a 1/4-cup ice cream scoop as a measuring cup for all things scoopable: mayo, peanut...

Day 298: We had many occasions to call to someone from across the farmyard or from across a field. Mom was adamant that instead of...

When I was in high school, I insisted on arising at 5:00 a.m. every morning to wash my hair. I also suffered under the delusion that I...

Day 296: My mother felt very strongly about cinnamon bears. Whenever we visited the candy counter at the old Sears store, she would ask...

Day 295: You know those weird tips you hear as a youngster that seem to stick with you through adulthood? Many of mine were taught by my...

Day 294: This week was filled with first-time realizations. I wrote about the moment when I realized I will have questions about Heavenly...

Day 293: How old were you when you first realized there could be problems in life? My first memory of this concept was the first time I...

Day 292: How old were you when you decided you either liked being scared, or hated it? It is an Octobery kind of realization. This...

Day 291: Do you remember when you first realized what a germ was? Perhaps it was the first time you peered into a microscope, or when...

Day 290: I unplugged for a few days, and like the rest of this week’s theme, there were realizations to be realized. The biggest? I’m in...

Day 289: When did you realize you weren’t always part of the family? Have you seen an old family photo so many times you began convincing...