Deep Thoughts of a Common Household Mom

Jan 1, 2017 Last night I dreamt that a dog tried to swallow my arm.   The dog wasn’t vicious, just hungry.   In the dream, my mother had...

The best fiction I read in 2016 Cannery Row by John Steinbeck Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance wi...

In December I finished seven books, mostly short works of fiction, including two for children. God bless the book club, which picked chi...

Astute reader Kristy asked if I jot down the family’s conversations on little pieces of paper located all over the house.   How did you...

Two chocolate roads diverged in a sugary wood, And sorry I could not eat both And still fit in my Santa suit, long I stood And looke...