What do you make with frozen pumpkin? Besides the obvious, and best, choice, the choice which taunts me in hind sight: pumpkin bread....

A friend commented to me yesterday that his house has never felt like a home. Hmmm... I can relate. Thinking back on the moves I've...

I can't realistically sing Back Home Again in Indiana because I've been a Hoosier all my life. But I got to hear it sung live for the...

This year has kept going with the bang that started it on New Year's Day--if you define bang as car trouble and car repairs. Weeks and...

What do you think? I have been specially chosen by the widowed daughter of an African president to manage and control $27,000,000. She...

It takes an act of God to wake us up and get us going some mornings. That was today. But once we did move, we had a beautiful, quiet...

Happy Fibonacci Day! Numbers fascinate me. Math is organized and predictable. It's right, or it's wrong, nothing in the middle. Black...

My parents and I went to see Grandma last weekend. One part of the day included walking around her property, and the memories from all...

My kitchen looks like a crime scene if food could be a victim. Kara and her cousins, D & T, made... (da-da-da--that's a drum roll in case...

Child: "I need $20." Mother: "For what?" Child: "I just need some money in case I need it." Do they think I'm an ATM? Kara and I made a...

Just some odds and ends for writing today. Life is too short to pull weeds all summer. A previous owner, one who cared anyway, took the...

Tonight was one of those nights I just couldn't come inside. I endured the voluntary torture of dance fitness, but if you've read any...

I'm really struggling to write lately. Not that I don't enjoy it; I do. It's just that so much is too personal to put out on a public...

Mother's Day every year is both glad and sad. I'm glad to be a mother and to have my mother and mother-in-law. I'm sad from missing...

11:00 in the morning. This morning was a different version of the usual morning chaos. One child is home from school today, and the...

You know what a nice noise is when you're a parent? Hearing the toilet flush the way it's supposed to. Until you've had to fight with...

It is now April. We're past April Fool's Day. Nobody pulled a fast one on me, and if they did, I have yet to discover it. That also...

Most of today was spent where I love best to be: surrounded by family. I grew up in a big, loud, happy family. I'm the third oldest of...

Life isn't any fun without some embarrassment, or potential for embarrassment, here and there. What I'm talking about is the dance...

North-central Indiana woke up to a beautiful blanket of snow this morning. We've had snow already, but the old snow gets dirty--some of...