Cheesy Pennies

Things I took away from the new movie, Contagion : 1.  Like everything else about her, Gwyneth Paltrow's business trips look like a l...

In the halcyon days before the SWAT team arrived , before I was overtaken by a birthday , before the start of new schools and new jobs and ...

The lake is sparkling below me, through the branches of the tall pines next to the deck of the lodge.  Sounds of kids squealing over the lat...

72 years ago today, my mom was born. 168 days ago, she died . I wish I was emotionally mature enough to have faced this with gratitude. ...

  "Hey. What are you lookin' at?" "Never seen a talking biscuit before? What's with the salivating?" ...

The UPS guy and I get seriously close at Christmas time, thanks to Amazon Prime and my sister .   Then I lose touch with him in the spring,...

There was one good thing about being at the kiddie table at our Thanksgiving dinners when I was little: The sparkling apple cider. It ...