Coincidentally, I picked two movies that premiered in 1942 for my watching this week: Now, Voyager with Bette Davis and Woman of the Year...

Welcome to the first Wednesday of the month. You know what that means! It's time to let our insecurities hang out. Yep, it's the  In...

Food is one of my love languages, so here in our time of crisis, I've turned to my kitchen to prepare comforts for myself and my fami...

I lean towards optimism in most circumstances, trusting that time and energy spent can improve most situations. At least I believe that no...

I love tickets, especially tickets to the theater. And 2016 has been a great year for going to the theater so far. There's somethi...

Gender and societal roles is an integral part of Going Through the Change,  nowhere more obviously than in the marriage of Linda Alvar...

Family, in one sense or another, is one of the most important aspects of human life. Whether we mean our parents, our children, our sig...

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My mother tells me that the first car she drove when I was a baby was a '62 Dodge Dart, but I don't remember that car, not even f...

The smallest place I ever lived was Kenny Lake, Alaska, population 400. I taught in a school of 100 children, grades K-12. My Spanish c...

How can it already be 5:00? I didn't get done with half of what was on my list for today.  (sigh) That's a normal Saturday, too. I...

My husband and I have never been married without children. When he married me, I was already a mother.  So T, the brave soul, jumped in with...

It's done! I finished the clean up of the first draft of my novel yesterday!  So, regardless of whether I ever find fame and fortune, I ...

            My sister thought she was a scary old lady. I kind of thought so, too. But I wanted to be scary like that.   People did wh...