My friends and I have entered the lottery for the Great Smoky Mountain firefly viewing. There is a canyon where thousands of fireflies...

I am so stressed by the nightly news that I end up on the couch like an exhausted new mother: horizontal, shoes still on. My heart,...

In the last couple of years, without me noticing,  I stopped getting Proud Announcements first. Proud Announcements are phone calls,...

I grew up with dogs.  But Chris grew up with cleanliness.  So when the boys pleaded for a dog, the answer was No .  Too dirty.  No one...

I saw Grizzly 399 on a girls trip out to Jackson Hole when my three boys were very young.  A trip to relax, to hike, to spa, to girl. ...

Later in her life, I would help Grandma get her socks on when she visited.  She couldn't bend over by then, and she had - what she called...

After a birthday party we received a thank you note from three year old Brynne.  I am sure there is nothing more beautiful and curious to...

Hallie, my niece, sends me photos of baby Lily. Sean’s and her first.  I am now a great aunt and far from the years of babies in my...

Dropped off and through the door there is that first look.  His eyes are expectant and smiling.  And I dance around the kitchen island,...

I can’t remember anything.   A memory class comes up and I enroll. And if I could remember everything learned I would spell it all out...

My friend, Aruna, is so upset. “He doesn’t want to talk to me anymore. He doesn’t want to be with me.” Her son is 15. And, just like...

Spent a week with my BF from college, Mary. We laughed, ate, drank, saw the Eagles and sang along to every song. We looked through the...

In a NYT opinion piece, an author calls health clubs the new church. People are leaving real church. Millenials want to find something...

We’ve got too much stuff. Friends are moving and having estate sales. Stuff sales. I am hearing how overwhelming this is - to clear a...

I can‘t stop parenting. My friends tell stories of how they “zipped their lips“ when they had the Perfect Solution for their adult...

In my philosophy class, our teacher asks - “Have you changed? Who are you now?” We have to write down a list of ideas that complete the...

I keep finding half done water bottles everywhere in the house. During summer they crept outside. One by the chaise lounge; lazily...

Virginia Lane was our bike street. All the kids met there. There was absolutely no traffic on Virginia Lane except for Mr. Stair who...

The crackling static on the old clock radio before a summer storm brings back so many summer memories. There was a lot of crackling on...

We went back to Florida for fun for the first time since my mother in law, Joan, died there. The last couple years with Joan were really...