Every August, there comes a week when I do a slow spin in my kitchen, fighting back panic, because I don't know what to do first. Garden...

  This was first published last year in the Hometown edition of Commonplace published by Daughters of Promise. On a recent Sunday afternoo...

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May: Brain Cancer Awareness Month Eight years ago: May 2017 Diagnosis: Ed has headaches. (But he has always had migraines; surely the...

Each winter, I attend a widows' retreat where I relish connecting with other widows. Some have been widows for many years; others are be...

Two years ago, I wrote about my goal to read slower and my struggle with reading poetry.  Poetry had always been something that I wanted to ...

In January and February, Charity and I took part in the Brighter Winter Reading Program . We've done this every year since it began, and...