Small Moments of Great Reward

My husband Warren is building a shed in the backyard, back in the corner where it juts a little further north. The shed is 12 x 14 feet, big...

I grew up in a household in which the magazine du jour was Reader's Digest . Being even then an avid reader - the kind who will read th...

Monday is Memorial Day and Warren and I, like many others around here, will observe it in part by visiting area cemeteries in which his and ...

Last Tuesday night was our monthly free legal clinic, at which I do intake. I cannot shake the look on the face of the middle aged, clearly ...

It is late May, the days are getting hot, and I am getting ready to dig the second garden bed, the one for the seeds. Back in April, I moved...

May 17 is my brother Mark's 46th birthday. Mark is the baby of the family. I was in first grade when he was born, old enough to apprecia...

There is a poem by Alice Walker that begins: Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. I came across it last week in a list of quotes titl...