The day began like any other day. The morning sun filtered through the kitchen window as I shuffled my way toward that first cup of coffee. The cat rubbed against my leg while she begged for her breakfast, the same way she does every morning. As I poured my coffee, my free hand … [Read more...]

By my own admission, I am a dabbler in life, filled with pseudo expertise, while totally lacking common sense. In college, I changed my major eleven times, until it dawned on me that honor grades alone would not produce a diploma. Now, as a married woman, raising kids and … [Read more...]

If cleaning house were a matter of life or death my husband would be comatose and my children with foster parents while I wrote my plea for forgiveness in the piano’s dust. If cleanliness is next to Godliness, I know where I’m going in a handbasket. I am convinced that … [Read more...]

The television was tuned into a rerun of the The Waltons, that fantasy show where a passel of kids lived happily ever after on a mountain during the Great Depression. They roomed five-to-a-bedroom in a house with their parents and grandparents, adding spouses, their own kids, a … [Read more...]