I no longer remember the point at which I simply gave up. But I know it happened. My weight crept up and up and up as the years rolled by.…
What a nice surprise I received recently when Cym Lowell bestowed the Versatile Blogger Award on me! In conjunction with receiving the award, recipients are asked to reveal seven things…
We have had a delightful summer here in the little village of Lodi. The temperatures have been uncharacteristically mild. Usually, by mid-August, we have endured many days when the temperature…
Our family has been through some major transitions over the course of the past year, and the evening of June 3, 2010, not only felt like the culmination of all…
He sat in an over-sized chair in the living room wearing bib overalls. One leg crossed over the other, his ankle rested on the opposite knee. He wore men’s classic…
It’s been a long time coming. Many years, in fact. After all, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), the denomination of which I was a member for the first…
1. What was your best day of the week last week and why? That would be a toss-up between Furlough Friday and Saturday. On Friday, I took a ride up…
We were bored, as I remember it. It was Christmas 1972 and we had traveled to Bloomington, Minnesota to spend the holiday with my mother’s sister, Auntie Gladys, and her…
In my mother’s eyes, it was all about fairness. Equality. Justice. Even when she took the concept to illogical and decidedly unfair extremes. It’s really no wonder that I wound…
California has been wet, windy, and wild this week. On Monday afternoon, I was driving west on Highway 4 near the Pittsburgh BART station en route to Marin County. I…
1. About how many hours a week do you spend watching TV? I spend far fewer hours actually watching television than the television set is turned on. I listen to…
. . . Continued from Getting into Trouble. It’s a difficult story about a difficult time in my life, so I have told it in a straight-forward manner few times…
His name was Reggie and I had never known anyone like him. It was early 1978. I was 21 years old and living in Fullerton, California. Away from home for…
Sophie actually allowed me to place these silly antlers on her for about a minute yesterday. BigBob bought them several years ago and she would not tolerate them for even…
Many folks have been blogging and Twittering about taking down all of their holiday decorations. One woman wrote that she had the tree down and everything stowed away for next…
“In the end, your family tree is a diagram of a thousand choices, all made in your favor.” Robert Brault Parenting is hardly an exact science. In fact, it is…
“All of the places of our lives are sanctuaries; some of them just happen to have steeples. And all of the people in our lives are saints; it is just…
Lynette Kraft at Dancing Barefoot on Weathered Ground is hosting a Harvest of Friends Blog Party, an opportunity to get acquainted with bloggers whose sites you may never have visited…
“Where thou art – that – is Home.” ~ Emily Dickinson
Who was your first “best friend”? Susie Saylor lived across the street and we were inseparable. What was your most memorable birthday as a child? Probably my 6th when I…