I had been driving around Sunday afternoon with only my thoughts for company. This isn’t an unusual occurrence, especially on brief trips an...

  It’s 11:30 on a Thursday morning when I knock once and open his bedroom door. I have been awake since dawn flitting between duties of home...

Why is everything such a chore? I ask myself this at least twice a day usually while I’m doing something exasperating like  … a chore.  “How...

There was no denying it; President Biden’s debate performance was less than ideal. He looked haggard and sounded flustered. His age was on f...

The three of us were about to head to Maine. It is a trip we’d taken so many times over the last seventeen years that I imagined, the kids, ...

The first day of summer coincided with a heat wave that had undulated between the low 70s and the high 90s for three days.  I hate this weat...

Every time the phone rings, I say a little prayer. Not a literal prayer with words for gods or saints who may be listening from the heavens....

As a kid, I remember begging my father to let me mow the lawn.  It was a chore that girl children didn’t usually pull from the roster of odd...

  Bedtime was near. I could sense it without looking at my watch or considering the color of the sky outside the window.  Despite the upbeat...

I miss her face. I knew I would. Even twenty years ago, when she was born, and none of us slept, and I went to work one day - got all the ...

There might have been a path to redemption for placekicker Harrison Butker when he addressed the graduating class of Benedictine College in ...

  The first Saturday in May was  …  a lot.  I’m  not  gonna  lie  as  the kids say.  Despite both of our children being licensed and capable...

  The weekend plans had been in the works for months. Six of my running friends and I had signed up for a spring half marathon featuring two...