It’s the most wonderful time of the year…blowing the dust off of the Christmas boxes, rooting through piles of decorations, realizing that items previously considered keepsakes now deserved a proper burial in the “tacky pile.” I lugged what I could salvage upstairs anticipating … [Read more...]

Ah! Summertime -- the joy of sitting and relaxing, curling up and reading a book, taking a random nap whenever you choose. The joy of a teacher’s being out of school. There’s nothing like it. No, really … there’s nothing like it. It is nothing short of a mirage, if that … [Read more...]

Four years ago, I fell in love with New York City. Last November, I broke it off. You see, exactly one year ago, my husband ran the New York City Marathon. My son Kyle and I were so determined to cheer on (in our opinion, anyway) the 2006 race’s most important runner, that we … [Read more...]

We live about a mile off the main road from Boondoggle to Fewmit here in Northern Idaho. Whenever we want to go into town, we travel that mile on a dirt road. Actually there is very little dirt involved. The road was originally constructed across a sheet lava flow by a logging … [Read more...]

My second worst fear came true last week; a virus attacked my computer. (If a virus that turned my files into images of and songs by David Hasselhoff attacked my computer, my worst fear would’ve come true.) I have a very limited amount of computer repair knowledge. (If it can’t … [Read more...]