Writer's Block

When I was going into 8 th   grade, my family stayed with my aunt and uncle for the summer while our house was being built. It was an idylli...

Something to think about today…and I hope this goes viral.   If you use a service like DoorDash, UberEats, Shipt, Instacart, etc., remember ...

Six and a half years ago, in August 2016, I received some of the most devastating personal news of my life: I had breast cancer. It was a su...

Written soon after he died nearly five years ago...shared now because we miss him... And with a final wag, we bid goodbye to our precious...

Ethan with Jazzy and Jujubee (2019) Hold my paw. I don’t know if I can. Why not? I don’t feel brave enough.   You’re braver than you think. ...

How great the chasm that lay between us How high the mountain, I could not climb In desperation, I turned to Heaven And I spoke Your name in...

This is precious little Molly, my Himalayan Netherland Dwarf, who turns 6 years old on 7/13. So 40 years ago, in June 1982, I got my first-e...

Sometimes, when you think too much time has passed, you head back to something or someone familiar, and it all clicks back into place...at l...

 

ALL Lives Matter. I am not a racist. The pigmentation in my skin does not make me one. I am a human, as are you and all the o...

My kids are always asking me if I loved them more when they were little. I love looking at their photos and talking about how sweet they w...

A memory: When Ethan was five years old, he gave me a crumpled napkin that I assumed he wanted me to throw away. I laughed and told him ...

My brain is ruminating...and so I must ramble a bit... ... I have always enjoyed exploring the world. I grew up moving around to di...

I am a huge lover of children's books. It's no secret. I've been collecting them since I was a teenager. Working for Highlights ...

Well, it's been awhile, huh? I know. I know. I promised I would try to do better...but, in fact, I feel like I've done worse. ...

I have always been a fan of frogs. I got a large stuffed frog toy named Flippo for Christmas when I as five. He was my best friend an...

My brain is ruminating.  The dictionary says to ruminate is “to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly.“  The ...

My favorite thing to buy at the beginning of each year was the Life magazine "Year in Pictures." My parents had a few from over th...

I am constantly irritated amused amazed by the stuff I read on the Internet. That it only really started in the form we now know nearly ...

Okay, in an effort to breathe new life -- or maybe just some life -- back into my lovable blog, I began to think again about posts. That'...

I love words.  I love the way they fall together to create sentences, forming stories or poems or songs. I love to hear the jingle of...

My parents always taught us to look at both sides of something. Sometimes that meant playing the "devil's advocate," but it ...

From Ethan's "2012 Art Collection."

Today was a HUGE day for our family -- for Stuart, specifically. Today is the day that Stuart became an American! It was something I had...

Happiest of Happy New Years! We are SO glad that it's 2017! To say that 2016 was not our family's favorite-most year does not ad...

There's a thing to understand about life...and that thing is that life is not always understandable. Curve balls can be -- and ofte...