Years That Answer

Growing up, I had many wonderful Christmases. Unfortunately, the one I remember the most is when my father ruined Christmas by getting drunk...

Christmas Eve was the high point in my youth. My large family exchanged presents from siblings on the night before Christmas. We would have ...

Our new (and first!) great-grandbaby was born a few days ago. All went well, and she is home now. She lives far from us, in the frozen north...

Grandson N (7) is crazy about Monopoly, so we play it often. He wheels and deals with abandon. I fear he’s a natural capitalist, although he...

I went to the surgeon the other day.  He told me I could stop using the leg brace.  I'm hobbling around a bit, because so many of those ...

I'm trying to get excited about Thanksgiving. It's a lovely holiday and deserves some of my time and attention. Other people's T...

I went to the surgeon yesterday for another post-op checkup, and all is going well. He adjusted my brace so I can practice bending my leg ...

It might be a mistake to binge watch The Great British Baking Show during this period of enforced torpidity. It is the only thing I want to ...

Lest you mistake me for a good person, let me confess a sin. I did something that might be a wrong, or at least not politically right-on. It...

How am I doing?  ("How am I doing?" I quietly mutter and muse to myself.) I am damaged goods, but wasn't I always? The differe...