Parent-teacher conferences for Youngest went better than I had expected. His teachers are simply flabbergasted at his intelligence and easy nature. He is the perfect post...

"Pick up some tea for me, would you please?" asked The Man Who Puts Up With Me . He told me two teas to buy and i scribbled them on a piece of paper. But that was several...

"That's it!" exclaimed Youngest in the backseat. "They eat garlic and that's it. They are dead." I had been daydreaming as we drove on the highway, but these words pulled...

I am not Sally G. I suppose Sally G. is certain of that since she has a corner market on herself. But when I look at how affirming and wonderful she is as a person and pa...

There are some days when I think my passion for living has completely taken me over the edge. I think I fell off the edge recently when I tried very hard to make life bet...

About a hundred years ago, in July 2009 to be exact, I wrote a series of blogs on How Not To Take a Summer Vacation , in which I detailed the fiasco that our Cruise Ameri...

Okay, here's a great desert that one of our church women made for Sunday coffee hour. 1 box chocolate cake mix 1 can pumpkin Combine, add a little water to thin batter. B...

Although I don't personally recommend this to anyone -- go have your tonsils removed with red hot pliers, it'd be more fun -- one unintended benefit of a sick-for-nearly-...

In September, we in Minnesota had summer, a real feat since the traditional summer months were all cold. In October, we mostly had something that looked terrible except f...

Oddly enough, this is one of the most common questions asked in our house these days. Mostly the ants are little, tiny, ghostly looking things about the size of flake of ...