I’ve learned some valuable things about life, love, and being female over the past half century. Here is the advice I try to pass on to younger women in my life (family and friends) in the hope... Read more >>

 Katie slouches against the crimson brick wall. Her hair is shoved with irritation under a dirty, pink Red Sox cap, but it is threatening to fall off. The cap is almost floating on her thick mob... Read more >>

As I get older and notice more of what’s going on around me, knowing myself is becoming like a piece of a chess game. Strategically if you know who you are, what you like, what makes you feel... Read more >>

Every morning when I wake up, I start my day going through the normal list; get up. wash face, brush teeth, get girls up, make them brush their teeth, make breakfast, eat breakfast … the list... Read more >>

“I’d like to talk to Graham about God and Heaven,” Graham’s babysitter said last week. She is a dear family friend and was my late mother-in-law’s best friend.... Read more >>

Being twenty-one, single, and seven months pregnant is a tough place to be. Besides the entire transformation that takes over your mind and your body, people suddenly become a lot more interested in... Read more >>

“What will I do mother?” Antonia look at her mother pleadingly. Her face is a picture of distressed, confusion, pain, and complete bewilderment. Gertrude’s have to tear her face away... Read more >>

I used to say, “If you see me getting smaller, you’ll know I’m leaving!” I thought I was so funny. The metaphor does not deal with the emotions involved with the “leaving... Read more >>

Interesting. I find a Web site that supports my writing, the first one I have ever encountered. Maybe it will be an experience ... maybe another waste of time. That’s how it is usually. I waste... Read more >>

We seek agelessness. We search for the miracle cure to stay young. We try to grow wiser, but not older. Old age was once respected as the ultimate wisdom, now it’s equal to illness, disease,... Read more >>