Years That Answer

We drove to Tarpon Springs on the Gulf of MEXICO (Dammit) the other day.  My Baby Sister and her family rented a large house, and Tom and I ...

I distinctly remember turning two. My oldest sister had been preparing me for the event. She was a very earnest 7 year old, the kind of sist...

I picked up my 6 year old grandson from school yesterday. My daughter asked me to take him to the mall to buy plastic animals for a diorama ...

My daughter, M, texted me that little N cried and screamed for her at the kindergarten school's door this morning. Teachers had to hold ...

This is my second Mother’s Day without my Mom.  She had her weaknesses, as we all do; but now I only remember her strength. She was...

In 1949, my parents moved into a house in Northern Indiana with my two older sisters . Mom and Dad were raised during the Great...

A year ago this week I left Central Florida to go to Northern Indiana to help my siblings manage my mother's death. I spent a week li...

I love Christmas. I love everything about it except for the rampant materialism. I DO like giving and receiving presents, though. ...

Our 3-year old grandson, N, thinks he is the boss of us.  He is a quirky, funny little person, a bundle of bedevilment and raw, wil...

When I was a little girl I liked to hide just out of sight on the breezeway steps so I could hear my mother and Bernie (the next door neig...

What is this thing they call dirt in Central Florida?  It looks like sand mixed with a little topsoil to me.  You should have seen my face ...