Sometime in January, I got elected to the Friends of the Library board in my town.  I'm not entirely sure how it happened, except that ...

My grandma left the world this past week.  She had moved into advanced stages of dementia, and suffered from COPD (chronic obstructive pulmo...

I was walking home from downtown with my daughter to meet my son on the bus.  Despite the chill in the wind, the sun felt warm, and we had b...

She couldn't have been more than 5, dressed in a white t-shirt and short ruffled pink skirt, shiny black hair pulled back into a pink ha...

Today was Commitment Sunday at our fellowship.  Like many religious organizations, my church collects pledges from its members in order to f...

Last Tuesday I rolled my ankle at the Y.  It was spring break for my son, the week when parents are supposed to do all sorts of entertaining...

I've posted multiple times before about my beef with my family's holiday dinners.  In a word, I hate them.  Too many unnecessary app...