In all of the turmoil and grief over the Aurora shootings, surely our hearts go out most of all to the parents of the child victim, 6 year...

Like everyone else in the country, I have been riveted by the story of Trayvon Martin, the beautiful young boy who went out for some Skitt...

Back in my working days, I worked in a building next door to an elementary school. The waiting area had large windows, almost walls of gla...

Half of a conversation, anyway. As I was leaving the courthouse yesterday to head home after my shortest term of jury duty ever, I heard a...

This morning began my week of jury duty. Yesterday evening I began my preparations: making sure my jury summons was in my purse and my poc...

Remember when I wrote about my husband’s week of jury duty , and concluded “I know if I were ever charged with a crime, I’d want a jury th...

My husband has jury duty this week. From all the moaning he’s doing, you would think he’s about to ship out to Afghanistan for an indefini...

Years ago, I met a group of online friends through a Get Organized interest group on AOL. As AOL went through changes and the message boar...

To Branson from south Louisiana is a long trip. With stops, it takes about 13-14 hours. The bus we took on our recent trip was new, only 9...

There are different degrees of misplaced blame. There's the kind where an accident gets misattributed as an avoidable action. Say, for...

Two, in fact. Last week, a fire began burning in a marsh to the east of New Orleans. Usually such fires are allowed to burn themselves o...

After lunch we had one of those out and about errand running sessions where each task seems to suggest the next. One such task was buying ne...

Last Friday I was driving to a doctor appointment when I was suddenly hit by a feeling of depression. It was a mix of sadness, hopelessness ...

View from Fortress de San Felipe Bacalar , built in 1729 to protect the pueblo from pirates Friends on Facebook tell me tomorrow is Internat...