I’m not sure what my book will be titled yet. Here’s a brief synopsis… Maggie Walker (for all of my Richmond friends…her name is explained in the… Read more “Book excerpt”

As most of you know, I accepted a challenge from my friend and blogging partner, Julie Farley, to compete in National Novel Writing Month ~ also known… Read more “The Race to 50,000”

Dear Claire, I thought I saw you today. But I know it wasn’t really you. It was a little girl who reminded me so much of you… Read more “Growing Up”

This past year has been one of varying degrees of every imaginable emotion…happiness, sadness, anger, joy, anxiety, fear. It’s probably like that every year for every person,… Read more “The Butterfly”

So, we don’t have just one gecko, we now have TWO ~ sort of… Zach’s gecko came into our house courtesy of the US Postal service. I… Read more “Ah, The Life of a Gecko in Our House”

I just let out the biggest sigh as I sit here thinking about Lucas… God love him.  I don’t know whether to shake him until his teeth… Read more “Lucas ~ Sometimes You Can’t Live With Him But You Definitely Can’t Live Without Him”

I can not tell you all how much I hate being sick.  The sickness has been in our house for over a week now and it’s time… Read more “I HATE Being Sick”

Many years ago my mother-in-law gave me (us) this framed poem… In This Home We BELIEVE in living deeply,laughing often and loving always.We BELIEVE we were brought… Read more “In This Home”

A perfect one, that is. The day started out as one of my favorites when Stan came into our room with breakfast on a tray for me.… Read more “Oh What a Day!”

Have you ever thought about what it would be like to switch places with someone?  The movie(s) “Freaky Friday” comes to mind when I think about what… Read more “Freaky Friday”