With the passage of another frightful Halloween comes what is truly the scariest, most dreaded, sleep-losing, event of the year…. the holiday greeting card season. Each year I try to convince myself that this will be the year that I finally create the perfect card that expresses … [Read more...]

Whenever I feel like I need a good cry, I go into my home office and stare at my sailboat expense log. How long I stare at the log depends on how long I need my crying jag to last. The 30-foot-long sailboat is an inheritance from my late father’s estate. Actually, my father … [Read more...]

I'm not a nervous talker, just a talker. As it happens, I’m also a talker who has a friend who once felt the need to call attention to her talking problem. This was about eight years ago, after I’d quit my office job to be a full time consultant and have more flexibility for the … [Read more...]

I had known Gail all of my life since her parents and my parents were long time friends. Everyone on both sides of our families believed that someday Gail and I would get together. So, after I got out of the Air Force, we started dating. But, it wasn’t long before, what everyone … [Read more...]

"Ha! I win again! In your face!" I lost yet another game of chess to my husband, Michael. This usually mild-mannered, gentle-giant of a man sat across from me gloating over his win. I flashed-back to all the other times he had beaten me at various activities from board games to … [Read more...]