What Seven-Year-Old Girls Think About

Elder Girleen has over the past few months reached a stage where she likes — no, is obsessed with — … More

Fall(ing)

The temperature may still hover around 97 degrees; people, somewhere, may be hitting the highways for a last gasp of … More

Today, as we made our way home from the playground and the library,* Elder Girleen stooped to the sidewalk. — … More

How much grist for the mill can one person get out of this particular topic? Can’t this crazy woman stop … More

It’s probably jumping the gun just a little to start referencing the dog days less than a full week after … More

First day of summer — our summer, which is defined not by equinoxes nor the wax and wane of the … More

If I had a favorite saint, St Jude, the patron of lost causes, would probably be it. I’ve always preferred … More

The more common variant of the saying being like pigs in clover — but let’s not go that far. But … More