
Popcorn Brain
A friend of mine recently emailed me an article from the Mayo Clinic on “popcorn
A friend of mine recently emailed me an article from the Mayo Clinic on “popcorn
As I noted in a 2015 post, I started using an accountant to prepare our
My granddaughter just turned two. Her parents and my husband and I planned a pizza
My book Family Recipe: Sweet and saucy stories, essays and poems about family life has now
Not long ago, my husband and I decided we needed a break in our routine,
There are times when I wonder why I keep posting on this blog. Some months
A few years after we moved to Kansas City, my husband bought a sailing canoe.
One morning earlier this month I read Emily Parnell’s column in The Kansas City Star,
When I was growing up, my mother regularly made pot roast because my father (a
I was surprised to get a notice from WordPress.com recently congratulating me on my 9th
In my critique group, I’m known as the Point-of-View Nazi. I try to catch when
I wrote last year about attending the writing conference at Johnson County Library. I was
My son says that when he lived in New York several years ago I told
There is a tradition that says that when one wants to sell a house, one
My parents had a stroller for me when I was an infant. I don’t remember
When I arrived at Middlebury College, I knew no one. The college did a reasonably
I recently received a notification from somewhere in my social media memories that I launched
This week’s haunting book is a novel about a privileged Englishwoman, Ursula Todd, born in
I think about my mother’s early signs of dementia a lot in May, because I
Forsythia have always signaled spring to me. Yellow is not my favorite color, but the
I am not a cook, and I don’t aspire to be one. But like many