Last week our friends, Dan and Sharon, brought us a three-course meal in pots and bags. They walked into our home, not as though we met two years ago, but like we were old friends. Their thirty-one years of marriage was apparent in the kitchen: Sharon unpacked the bags and set out the appetizer: Boursin…
Wanderlust is my word of the week. It is a noun, and it means a strong, innate desire to rove about or travel. I love to wander. It's actually quite easy because my mind has this magical ability to venture off into the fields of my thoughts, to wade…
Finding the perfect birthday gift for a preteen girl can be difficult ( I know this because I have two daughters and a niece, (ages 15, 12, 11). My sister had the right idea this year, and I just have to hook you up with her brilliance. She sent a skin and hair care…
Two years ago just as my neighbor, Barbara, left for a four-day trip, the florist delivered a bouquet of flowers to her door. The white hydrangeas- the star among colorful flowers - peaked out of the top of the plastic. The green stems, held in bondage with a rubber band, poked out at the…
My husband, Ontonio and I were born in the same hospital two days apart. I was born on the 13th of April, and he entered the world, and my heart, on the 15th. In the eyes of the law, we have been married for thirteen years. However, if you were to query my husband about…
At age 13, Dr. Nallette told my mother it was "Just bad cramps." I hated her then for minimizing the war inside my pelvis. An emergency doctor told me it could be STD's
and prescribed me antibiotics. One doctor said it was in my head
when he told…