I have a friend who attends quite a few pro-life rallies. She believes deeply in the sanctity of life and so she holds placards on street...

My mother died four years ago, on April 20, 2008. It was a Sunday. I was ordering shoes online when I got the call from my dad, and it...

The title of this post is also the name of a book by Patricia Klein. I think that could be me on the cover – minus the older brother...

Summer is coming, and if it’s like every other summer of my adulthood it will last about three minutes. It seems like I’m buying beach...

I suppose that those of us who have children of different ethnic backgrounds are paying close attention to the Trayvon Martin story that...

At the risk of redundancy, I’m writing again about technology. My last post (too many days ago) was about my father’s typewriter, which...

“My life was easy and I loved it.” These eight words are the opening to the heart-wrenching novella Angel Mountain. And it only gets...

There are those moments when everything in your life gets put in sharp, pointed, and sometimes painful perspective. Last Thursday, I sat...

I fell in love with my husband on our college campus when I was 19 and he was 20. He had shaggy blond hair and a smile that made me feel...

In an unintended effort to find numerous and varied ways to waste even more time on my computer, I have entered into the world of...

I spent this past week in Washington D.C. in a hotel where my computer would not cooperate with the “free” WiFi. So my phone became my...

Alison wants to learn to sew. This is one of the many times when I miss my mother. When she used to spend the night with my parents, Mom...

Yes, Christmas is over, but I saved this “Shop Differently” post until January for a reason: if we’re going to do this for Christmas...

Here is what I really wanted needed today: to go over to Mom and Dad’s house, sit down at the dining table, and have Mom set a steaming...

It happened again last week. As I was approaching a red light after exiting the expressway, I saw the man sitting on the side of the...

Sometimes I wonder why I bother with a blog. Blogs seem narcissistic, you can’t hold them in your hand and smell the pages, and you are...

So when the time came to think about 2012 and what this year might bring, I reminded myself of last year’s project. I resolved to make no...

I love this picture for so many reasons. It was December 29 when it was taken and the girls are in short sleeves and barefoot (gasp!)....

I got everything I wanted for Christmas and a few things that weren’t on my list. Life is like that. We receive it all and realize that...

Five years ago, I received a gift catalog in the mail from Heifer International. It had photos of chickens, sheep, cows, rabbits. I was...