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...

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...

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...

My Saturday morning was chaotic. I did a little work from home while drinking coffee as it slowly morphed from hot and refreshing to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hello, Sunday morning! I need to get ready for church in a minute, but first... coffee! It's percolating in the magic pot right now. ...

We're far enough into a new year that lots of goals have already be derailed or abandoned. I don't have specific goals for a new year,...

This doesn't always happen, but when it does, it's after I've written an entire post, along with lots of pictures. What is it? Wix.com...

Is a parent supposed to laugh or cry in this situation? That is, I asked one child several times while we were at Meijer if he/she had...

Sometimes, even Mom leaves an empty toilet paper roll. I just wanted to see what it felt like to be a kid again, assuming somebody else...

Twas the night before the next day, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a... Wait a minute! Mom was...

Guess what fun I've been having lately? Sometimes the fun is more imagined than obvious, but here it is: Anticipating, then taking, an...

I spent last weekend with my grandmother and one of my aunts who lives out of state. Grandma's house has always been a place of good...

Wet towels greeted me this morning. Rather, the sight and smell of them greeted me. Towels can't very well speak. "Hang up your wet...