Month: March 2010

The last several months I have been working away at posting all my my columns from August 1993 through to the present on this website. I have completed that project. I still see that I have many typographical errors, but my goal of at least getting them all saved digitally as well as on paper…

Babies, toddlers, proud grandparents and parents filled the first five rows of pews. The screen behind the communion table flicked through a slide show of the children to be dedicated that morning. I snapped a shot of my granddaughter’s smiling face magnified on the screen for everyone to see. Taken just after her first haircut,…

As painful as the subject proved to be, last week’s column on leg cramp cures nonetheless provoked many comments and emails from readers. Folks offered both my husband and I their own stories and solutions. One reader just wanted to know where I found the canned mangoes. At the time I did not know a…

Just as I settled into a deep sleep, my husband stumbled out of bed moaning, “I have two cramps in my thigh and one in my calf.” It wasn’t the first time he had roused me from a deep slumber with a double and triple whammy of cramps seizing his legs after a day of…

Lying there in the dental chair with a hypodermic needle in my mouth, I suddenly felt faint. Not particularly wanting to lose consciousness with a needle stuck in my jaw I waved my hand for attention. The dentist stopped and looked at me. “I’m going to faint. I’ve fainted before. I know what it feels…