We've been watching so many movies.  Some of them – those with crowded restaurant scenes or lavish family gatherings at least – a...

For years I followed nursing home ratings. How many complaints had been filed? How many investigations completed? What percentage of t...

At precisely 6 p.m. on one of the days that end in Y, I was standing on my porch, with my kids excitedly hopping around me, raising a gl...

As small parts tumbled out of the box and onto the deck of the front porch, the tension in every muscle of my upper body ratcheted just one...

The dog's ears casually rise to attention as I move through the house. She furtively glances my way without shifting from her place in ...

"Let go," the teenager instructed as we rounded the corner. For a moment, I didn't register that she was talking to me. H...

I hate my face. It looks like an egg. I hate the up-angled foreshortening and the extra skin apparent when I look down.  When did that...

It's noon on a weekday, and my husband and I glare at each other from our anchored locations on opposite couches. He has the remot...

My sister and I haven't been the best of friends. Maybe it's because we have everything in common, including an all-to-familia...

"When do we start," she asked as I raise my wrist to the heavens. She doesn't look happy. Not that I expect glee. Ru...

I don't want to seem too obvious. I linger a little too long in the cosmetics aisle. I snatch a box of mascara from its display hook...

At the neighbors, standing in their kitchen wearing my best woolen socks, I couldn't take my gaze from the baseboards. The sparkli...

No one in our house will feel the pinch like I will. That delicate friction between film and fingers to break the static. The dreaded ...

I collect all my thoughts in the shower. I make lists, wherein I solve all the world's problems one step at a time. Lather, rinse,...

A royal blue-lettered envelope embossed with the school's insignia arrived in the mail, indicating a more important communique than wh...