Month: February 2015

I arrive at airports early enough to accommodate backlogs of customers at the ticketing counter, snafus in the TSA inspection line or gate changes that force me to run from one end of the airport to the other. So I had plenty of time the day I left LAX for DFW on Wednesday. (For the…

The instant the student leaned over my desk for help with a math problem, I knew I was going to be sick. That much contamination right in my face sealed my fate. I was going to get a cold and a nasty one at that. True to form, within days my body succombed to sneezing,…

An alcoholic father, a physically and possibly mentally troubled mother, a rigid grandmother, years spent with an aunt learning to become a lady, and a very early career as a private school teacher all came together in Dorothea Dix’s life the day she went to teach a Sunday School class of women in the East…

My husband simply cannot stand for me to do something without him joining me in the experience. If I get a speeding ticket driving around town, he gets a speeding ticket driving out of town. I have a fender bender, he crunches his van. I clean my car, he polishes his. So why was I…