Welcome to a new year and a fresh opportunity to rejuvenate, renovate, or re-invent your life!   The year 2020 will go down in history books as an incredibly difficult year Read more

Some time ago, we sat down with some friends for a potluck meal together.  As we ate, we started talking about the kinds of foods we liked, and the topic, Read more

In my small, rural Missouri town during my childhood, there was no community trash pick-up service that came once a week.  Instead, we all had 55-gallon metal drums in our Read more

It's hard to wait, but life gives us many opportunities to do just that.  Sometimes it's simple waits, like, waiting in line at the Post Office when the line is Read more

“Mom!” my daughter, Andrea, then a teenager, yelled with exasperation as I slammed on the brakes of the car. “Look, over in that yard! There’s the first Robin I’ve seen Read more