After being gifted our family home in 2019, my extra surprises and mysteries included finding 68 plus letters from my parents courtship...

When I was asked to do a program for the Bridge House Brats in Phoenix, NY, I was stuck on the idea that these school aged kids from 8...

It was like an ordinary ,slightly chilly, but sunny, October day last year and I was going about getting my fifth mini meal of the day. I...

In the front yard of my family home, there are two Trees of Heaven. I was always fascinated by these trees, and especially since they...

At the time I was almost 5, I rambled around this big Cape Cod house in the eastern suburbs of Syracuse, New York never worrying about...

In my former life I use to jump and run, take aerobics classes and play hard. After burying four members of my family, I was shifting. My...

It has only occurred to me lately that I keep using dishes with holly on them all the time. They are of course, my mother's dishes. In ...

From the time I could walk I needed correction. My legs didn’t face the right way. Bowed legs were adjusted by steel braces that forced...

My dad's office building was across from a John Deer tractor store. All the businesses around there had lots of land. A marshy gulley...

My first set of wheels must have been on a training bike. I don't remember it. The first popup memory is knowing already how to ride....

One decade lived in Florida proved to me you can run barefoot on the beach in January, never have to own a snow shovel, earmuffs or...

I was sweating in my fancy taffeta skirt and white shirt. It was 1962 and that's the way my mother dressed me even though we were at the...

It's January 15th and its time for the tree to come down.My husband won't let up. The boxes for putting away the ornaments, garland and...

Sand like debris and wind lashed our faces as we walked down Franklin Road. As Indian Summer faded the cornfield to the right of us dried...

As thoughts of Spring fast approach with the start of the new year, those with Irish heritage look ahead to St. Patrick's Day. Sayings...

When I was living in Florida with my husband, I was convinced our ranch house had a haunted stove. We heard banging around the sides and...

When I was a kid you said I never finished anything! I’m writing to inform you that in December I will be married 22 years (in a row) to...

In 1986, I woke up one morning and had the ideas for a series of poems. Later, as I wrote them down, I realized they shared a common...

The breeze was cool for July, even though the sun poured thickly down into St. Valier on the banks at the St. Lawrence seaway. The little...

In my twenties, I was living in a room in the house of a lady from Louisiana. I called her Lonnie. Her cozy house and considerate manner...