The Christmas decorations are coming down today. I have never left them up for so long. Early in our marriage, it was what I did watching the Rose Bowl Parade on New Year’s Day. While the bowl games played in the background I would pack up the ornaments, lights and nativity sets. It was practically […]

Tomorrow evening, two of my three daughters will don costumes and head out with friends for fun and frivolity as they move throughout the neighborhood begging candy, sweets and treats from kind strangers and distant acquaintances. Some people go all out for Halloween. They love to decorate with wispy webs and creepy cauldrons. There are […]

Small shards and bulky hunks of jagged glass sprayed across the kitchen’s hardwood floor. That particular glass has survived half a dozen moves over 21+ years of use. However, the air drying dishes shifted somehow on the mat and the glass was now in pieces, broken on the floor. The kitchen clock is broken too. […]