family/life/love

It wasn’t a good trip. No, the trip was good, I wasn’t. I was weepy. Everything made me sad. Intellectually, I know…

Words pour, life, work, dreams and fears articulated sometimes mumbled, unfiltered from her. She has a lot to say and we only…

How would you like the chance to win an 9-course Italian tasting dinner for 6 at your home? A couple of weeks…

Wednesday morning my phone rang… I ran behind the ambulance into the hospital’s loading bay. “You’re not allowed in here.” “You’ve got…

She laid him on an unmade bed while I sat on the floor steadying my arm against the wall. Watching him through…

From the bottom of my heart, happy new year! I’ve recovered from my après Christmas emotional roller coaster ride and I’m wide open…

It’s inevitable. No matter how hard I try to avoid it, every year, the bottom falls out of my cozy, homey Christmas…

Nanny Chase held eight of her own babies, eleven grandchildren, nineteen great grandchildren and this week she held her great, great grandson…

To say that I’m excited about Christmas would be a colossal understatement. We haven’t had our three girls under the Christmas tree,…

We spent the weekend putting the gardens to bed. Cut back, weeded, tagged and tilled; the garden beds are ready to rest…