Saturday night my daughter Molly and I found ourselves inexplicably alone at a gorgeous camp fire . (The gentlemen in our party had wandered off into the woods and landed at a neighbor's pond where they built socially distant sand castles and tried to catch fish with their bare hands.) So, we were quite blissful [...]
Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hairFlow it, show itLong as God can grow itMy hair! It's been exactly 164 days since my last hair appointment and I can't get these lyrics out of my head. Gimme a head with hairLong beautiful hairShining, gleaming,Streaming, flaxen, waxen I consider myself lucky, though. Thanks to extreme myopia, [...]
Because my sister Kathy (a middle child) retired mid-week, mid-semester, mid-pandemic, she might have slipped away unnoticed from the job she loved. But, her team of coworkers, friends and family weren't about to let that happen. On Wednesday, we all gathered for a surprise retirement parade past her house on a perfect May afternoon, made [...]
From their teeny, tiny kitchens across the country, my adult kids are kickin' some keister in their kitchens. It has been amusing, amazing, heart mending and mouth watering to see. They are whipping up fluffy biscuits, deep friend chicken with homemade aioli, thin and crispy scallion pancakes, hand-patted tortillas, homemade mole, pulled chicken, pineapple cookies, [...]
Dear 18, It has been 35 days since life grounded you without cause, and we just want to say thank you for the elegant way you’ve risen to this challenge. Your senior year ended just as you were getting to the best part. Then this weird, dangerous virus shrank your social circle like accidentally microwaved [...]