Something magical begins when the calendar page turns to December. There is just something special and bright about the holiday season. It makes me wishful.  It fills me with hope and light.  It warms my soul with “comfort and joy.”  It renews me...

“Work kept us from dwelling too much on the difficulties of our circumstances. Although our situation didn’t change overnight, it did change. That’s the thing about work. If we simply keep at it—steady and constant—things certainly will...

Please note:  Be warned … there is a somewhat graphic picture further down this post.  It shows the incision from my husband’s foot surgery. A little over a week ago my husband went in for his outpatient foot surgery.  He had a “largish” ganglion...

The husband has been gone all week on a business trip.  (Who ever planned a business trip to involve Halloween weekend probably doesn’t have kids.  And while we are on the subject of not having kids , whoever enacted the time change law also must not...

Do you have too much Halloween candy on hand from all your trick-or-treating munchkins? Or too much left over from trick-or-treaters who never visited? Besides doing scientific experiments on it or running a small candy store where your kids trade in...