Loneliness and Being Alone are not the same, but often overlap. “Agnes is being moved into a nursing home,” my mother said. Agnes is...

Armloads of flowers smeared trails of color through the gray of the elegant hallways of the Minnesota state capitol building  in...

Please don't do this. We are within three hours of our destination, Nini Dair’s condo in Chicago. This is our sixth day on the road,...

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost I’ve been thinking a lot about house vs....

Life currently feels like the game Mexican Train. So, where was I? Oh yes, fourteen dominos.   Some have been loaded onto the Mexican...

Did you hear those sighs of relief? Mowgli graduated from high school. There were two commencements: public high school and county...

Life is fragile, a tiny bone ruining a bit of fish, a mislaid pin piercing a bare foot. It doesn’t take much to change the course of the day.

Who is our mother? Not just the woman who gave birth.

Really, you have got to see this! Where was I? Oh, yes, yesterday (Tuesday, April 22) I looked forward to hiking   in the Coronado...

Kartchner Caverns. Worth a visit along with Colossal Caves. Caveat: lots of links and hyperbole. All this talk of moving  has inspired me...

A too familiar site. Guided tours are helpful to visitors to get the lay of the land, learn some history and identify sites to pursue...

Yesterday I walked the house, the memories reverberating. There was a slight shifting of the dominoes   this week. After several weeks of...

This is an accurate depiction of how I feel, not to be confused when how I look. I am playing retirement, much like I played house as a...

“It is only in modern times that the dream, this fleeting and insignificant looking product of the psyche, has met with such profound...

Better living through chemistry. Okay, several friends contacted me concerned about my health, sparked by one sentence in the previous...

Everyone needs a room of their own. Blue Boy is home for spring break, preparing for the end of his second year of college. Every time I...

Perhaps we need to learn from Europeans who treat their cemeteries more like parks than creepy areas of loss. My father died in June...

[Jesus] suffered under Pontius Pilate,was crucified, died and was buried; he descended into hell; on the third day he rose again from the...

I recall a time we took a short kayak tour down the Verde River, Water to Wine  it was called since it ended at a winery. When asked what...

Waiting to take my chances. I just recounted and renumbered the dominos. I am up to fourteen. They bounce as if someone had punched the...