
My Lucky Four-Leaf Clover
St. Patrick’s Day is coming up this weekend. I’ve written before about the importance of

St. Patrick’s Day is coming up this weekend. I’ve written before about the importance of

I don’t typically write back-to-back posts about “national days” and similar occasions, although it is

When I was cleaning out my parents’ house after my father’s death in January 2015,

As I look back on my childrearing years, one of the things I’m glad I

As I wrote last week, my husband and I are dealing with his broken kneecap.
We have all had times when life changed in an instant—an accident, illness, natural disaster,

I wrote recently about my son’s bout with chickenpox in January 1986. Well, as I

Even before I met my mother-in-law-to-be, I wrote her. It was shortly before Mother’s Day

I launched my blog “Story & History: One writer’s journey through life and time” in

My kids were born several years before the chickenpox vaccine was available. The measles/mumps/rubella vaccine