I grumbled a bit at the snow dumped in my lap this week. Winter or not, it had been dry most of the month, and I was spoiled. The new snow m...

Did you know today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day? I did not, until reading of it in the newspaper. Yet the Holocaust has been o...

Elise is our exceptionally sunny* child, so cheerful, so friendly, so boldly extroverted that she once prompted my dad to ask, "Are yo...

Here's my husband having a grand old time at his grandparents' home, circa 1972. After a recent similar experience (read on!) I'...

Wow!  I've finally entered blogging land, after teetering on the fence for a long time.  I enjoy reading friends' blogs but so...