Wendy's Excellent Adventure

It's only early December, so it feels a tad early to start with all the year-end retrospectives, but everyone loves a good list. My favo...

Saturday afternoon. The family is sitting on the sofa watching football. Susan and Wendy are folding laundry. Me: What should we do for dinn...

 My darling Zeke, This past Sunday was your 14th birthday. You were with your dad, but you and I had planned to go shopping for a new skateb...

 A friend of mine recently turned me on to Ken Burns's documentary series about the national parks  (it's great). The first episode ...

 My dearest darling Josephine, This morning I woke up and found that you had crawled into bed with me during the night. I snuggled up close ...

 It was the night before that the anxiety started to hit me.  And it was totally unexpected. I was the one who had heard about the via ferra...

It has been seven years since that awful, awful day, when Emma was killed and an emotional nuclear bomb blew up our family. I still vividly...

It had been awhile since I'd had a good travel mishap , so I guess I was due. I just didn't realize yesterday that it was going to b...

 I am not a tall person. I think that is something on which anyone who has met me can agree. In most areas of my life, it's not a big de...

Back in April, Iceland said, "hey, world, if you're vaccinated, come hang with us."  Because most other countries were heading...