Welcome to Open Book Blog Hop. You can find us every Monday talking about the writing life. I hope you'll check out all the posts: you...

  Welcome to Open Book Blog Hop. You can find us every Monday talking about the writing life. I hope you'll check out all the posts: you...

  Welcome to Open Book Blog Hop. You can find us every Monday talking about the writing life. I hope you'll check out all the posts: you...

Welcome to Open Book Blog Hop. You can find us every Monday talking about the writing life. I hope you'll check out all the posts: you...

Welcome to Open Book Blog Hop. You can find us every Monday talking about the writing life. I hope you'll check out all the posts: you...

Two years ago, we had a plan. Mom, my sister, my aunt, and I were going to Ireland to celebrate my mother's 70th birthday…but of course,...

It was my birthday a couple of days ago. On a Thursday. A workday. So, not the best day for celebration, but adult life, you know? It is wha...

So, that was weird. 2021, I mean.  Time is always weird, of course. But it's gotten weirder lately.  I was looking at a family picture t...

 Normally, it's pretty easy for me to build up a head of steam and some excitement about Christmas. What's not to like? Pretty light...

As I write this today, I'm on a train on my way to NYC with my husband and my youngest kiddo to see a Broadway play. A couple of firsts ...

Friends and followers might remember that we lost our boy-o, O'Neill, back in February. He'd been part of our family for twelve ye...

Wow! That was fast. I mean, after nearly eighteen months of hardly going anywhere and seeing only the people in my bubble, you'd think I...

  A month or two ago, on the beach So, it's been fifteen years since I married this guy. That seems at the same time, very reasonable an...