Tomorrow is my 30th high school class reunion.  Unfortunately, I'm not going although I'm regretting that decision more every moment...

My kids are 10 and 12.  They've always been good kids and generally well behaved.  I ask them to do something and eventually it gets don...

I hope I didn't scare anyone with the title, but this death sure hit close to home: This giant saguaro was in our front yard wh...

A couple of weeks ago, the City of Phoenix held it's annual memorial to employees killed in the line of duty. Fortunately, no employee d...

Tonight I was going through the photos on our Mac and managed to do a quick trip down memory lane with pictures of my kids.  Mackenzie is ...

I'm sitting here on New Year's Eve about to begin the festivities with close friends.  2013 is coming very fast, so I have barely en...

By now you have heard the news - the Twinkie, Ding Dong, HoHo, Suzy Q, Chocolate Cupcake - GONE!  Yeah, we've been hearing rumors for a ...

Sometimes it's good to go home.  I'm getting to that middle age when you only get to see your extended family at funerals.  Last wee...

Last weekend I visited my Alma Mater where I met my wonderful husband: The University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana is a large sprawl...

At the risk of looking really old, I've been thinking back on my high school days in the '80s.  It's September now, and I'm ...

This is my grandmother's clock It doesn't work, but I remember it in my grandmother's house and then in my house as a child. ...

If we were having coffee today . . . I would tell you how my kids are growing up so fast. I would ask you whether being with your kids ...

The last week has been scary. I've been disoriented and disconbobulated.  I've been without a phone! More accurately, I've bee...

Every time I go to a linky party I see some amazing things.  It's mind boggling.  I'm speechless when I see all the creativity and t...

Ever since Dear Daughter was 5 she's been begging to "have her ears to pierce".  I figured I would wait until she knew how to ...

This was an easy page to put together.  It was part of a two page spread.  (My son was on one page and the rest of the family was on the oth...