" Salad days " is an idiomatic expression, referring to a youthful time, accompanied by the inexperience, enthusiasm, idealism,...

"Hey, you know your roller blades are still down here." It's a lazy Saturday morning; in an unusual reversal of roles, S. is...

With gratitude to my book group, who provided the inspiration for today's post. This month, my book group read Unbroken , the memoir o...

On the day we moved into our current house, I was wearing a sweatshirt from a university women's retreat at which I'd been invited t...

In January, I was elected (sort of, anyway) to my town's newly-formed Friends of the Library Board. It happened in the way most things ...

Just a little more than ten years ago, I visited South Africa with a study tour from my graduate school of education.  As I've mentioned...

On the last Monday of each month, Lavender Luz at Write Mind Open Heart sponsors Perfect Moment Monday , a blog hop/writing prompt that of...