WITH EVERY STEP the snow crunches under our feet. The dog runs ahead and occasionally saunters in yet another futile attempt to catch a vole or a mouse. She then plunges in [Continue]
MOST DAYS THE BOYS come home from school saying the day was OK. Every now and then something more than ordinary happens and the usual non-descriptive OK is replaced by [Continue]
SO THIS IS HOW I STARTED writing my column for this week, because of this upsetting and about to get uglier issue… Here we are again, on the cusp of having new vaping [Continue]
ONE OF THE THINGS I took for granted as a child (and teenager) was the thoughtfulness of adults around me. I had a good home with involved and loving parents, but there was [Continue]
I HAVE THIS SIMPLE blade coffee grinder that I use for grinding flax seeds. It lost a knob during one of our many moves, but it still works. No points for looking pretty [Continue]
THE FIRST QUESTION I hear every time I walk into his room is ‘What are we going to do today?’. My answer is almost always the same, ‘we can read some, or do rhymes, but [Continue]