Month: June 2002

The cats have it made: They enjoy free food with no pressure to catch rodents. They expect us to get up and let them in, out, in, out – you get the idea. The cute little calico loves to nestle around my daughter’s sleeping body at night. The calico thinks she owns this human –…

My life is not the way that the way it used to be. It isn’t even the way I thought it should and would be. As a young bride my hardworking husband left for work in the wee hours of the morning while I slept on until I needed to wake-up and see the children…

Wedding pictures … flaws and all, I am officially, old-fashioned and completely out of step with the times – and see no reason to get in step. A recent letter to Dear Abby from a professional wedding coordinator described two starkly different weddings she supervised inside of a month. The first came straight from a…

At garage sales, I look for used books: a copy of an children’s book for the grandkids, a novel I might read, or an old book reflecting an earlier era. The corners of our re-modeled the home are filled with shelves of books. Even in the laundry room I am surrounded by three overflowing book…