Small Moments of Great Reward

Yesterday was unseasonably warm for the next to last day of October. By mid-afternoon, the temperature was in the high 80s. Warren and I ate...

Warren's parents owned a movie camera and did a stunning job of documenting their home life from holidays to parades to visits from fami...

Among the many books I read to my boys when they were little were the Bunny Planet books by Rosemary Wells. In the Bunny Planet books, the m...

Aunt Ginger is our family's Depression baby. She was born 80 years ago today, just 11 days before the stock market and the American econ...

The gardens are gone. Well, not exactly. There is still one pumpkin vine with a pumpkin that I am hoping can hold on just a little longer u...

Once a doctor says, definitively, "you have cancer," your world is never the same. It - the realization that you have this insidio...

Callinectes means "beautiful swimmer" in Greek, something I learned when reading about the Chesapeake blue crab, whose taxonomical...