After 36 years working at the center, I am finally retiring. Four weeks from today I will be a lady of leisure, at least until financial rea...

spider lilies blooming in the backyard My husband is not the romantic type. His attitude for the most part is "I told you I loved you...

Abbey is the one in blue. Every September for the past nine years, the small non-profit organization I work for has held a fundraiser break...

Yesterday, my husband developed a yen for pizza instead of the nourishing dinner I had planned for him: roast salmon, sauteed eggplant and p...

Today I was working with D again and we were looking at an abbreviated, board book version of the book, The Carrot Seed .  While D showed h...

The post office at Fin del Mundo - the end of the world, or the ends of the earth No matter how much I try to stand out in the world...

One hundred years from now, It won't matter what car I drove, What kind of house I lived in, How much I had in my bank account, Nor what...