I attended a memorial service for a young person a couple of days ago. He was just starting adulthood…so the grief was palpable. Lou and I were only two minutes late getting to the church for the service, but it was already standing-room-only when we arrived. People were wedged together like pickles in a jar […]

There’s this one person in my life who always gets me. My sister. She’s the best, and I count on her to keep me sane and to make me laugh no matter what’s happening in my life. But yesterday, right in the middle of a laundry emergency (her husband got a stubborn stain on his […]

I bought this new bathroom cleaning spray. It’s made by some “natural” company that must be trying to get new customers because it was a really good deal, and they had a few fragrances in their product line-up that piqued my interest. I went with the mandarin orange scent, and for the most part, I […]