Who thought a road trip was a good idea anyway? After a 10-day visit from the kids, home was calling. I volunteered to ride back to Colorado with them to help curb the chaos of travel with a [Read more...]
The darkness of the African morning caressed me with velvety fingers and enveloped my body with warm humid air as I found a perch on the stairs. Then I heard it, a soft shuffle, and steady steps. My [Read more...]
“Where were they? They can’t have just disappeared.” Escaping with the giddy feeling of power in outsmarting their “jailers,” three students snuck off campus and headed for 7-Eleven three blocks [Read more...]
"Who has the weirdest item in your purse?" "And the winner is…a dental tray?? Whaaat?" Laughing until your sides ache, playing a raucous game of purse scavenger hunt, sprinkled with wise words [Read more...]
It’s two weeks to Christmas people! Does that statement make your worry level rise or your heart flutter with joy? Does it make your head spin and your tension explode like the top of a pressure [Read more...]
My son lives in Malibu. I know, tough right? I sent him to college in California knowing in my mother’s heart I’d never get him back. But no matter how hard I hold on to what I know, life marches [Read more...]
She was taught to disbelieve. Any notions of fantasies or make-believe lay dying, nipped in the bud. And she was only six years old, A steady walker toward the road of cynicism her mother had [Read more...]