I've been a teacher my whole life. Just ask my cousins and my poor little sister about the days when I forced them to play school with m...

I've got a day off today. Thank you Veterans! Generally, I take one particular veteran to lunch, but my sister just moved to the opposit...

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...

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...

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...

Critical Read put out a call recently for short nonfiction posts about art that is seeing you through the pandemic. They rejected my submis...

Image source April is normally such a busy month in our family.  We have two birthdays and our dating anniversary to celebrate.  ...

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...

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 th...

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 t...

LeSigh. Can summer really already be over? I didn't get it all done again, of course. Doing *everything* I want to do every summer wo...

I love my family and my teaching life, but sometimes they feel like they're going to squash me. At the worst of times, it's like p...

Summer is here! As I write this, I've been on summer vacation for (checks watch--remembers I don't have one and checks phone) 1....

This month I'm writing one post for each letter of the alphabet, all on the theme of "Letters to Dead Writers." You can see...

This month I'm writing one post for each letter of the alphabet, all on the theme of "Letters to Dead Writers." You can see...