For most of us 2020 has been somewhat stressful, right? Even if you haven’t personally experienced the physical effects of COVID-19, you’ve no doubt undergone disruptions to your lifestyle. It could b ...

All of the women in my household are domestic engineers with three things in common: rich cooking, needles and threads, and grandfather clocks. It wouldn’t be home without the smell of brown gravy sim ...

I don’t know about your family, but ours found we really needed to get out of town this summer for a change of scenery. Not necessarily easy to do since a large portion of the world has been off limit ...

“It’s the last day of Spring Break!” Mia said as she bounded down the stairs into our kitchen about a week ago. We’d decided months ago that we were on [what felt like] an eternal Spring Break. At fir ...

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.—Leonardo Da Vinci How I love the last ...

Since I’m exhausted from writing about, as well as hearing about, the COVID-19, I’m going to switch gears and bring you up-to-date on my grandkids!  Now you know therein will be some small bit of comi ...

America can’t breathe right now. We can’t breathe. Following the death of George Floyd the world has simply changed. As if walking around wearing a mask while shopping for toilet paper wasn’t enough t ...

I feel like I’ve walked literally every sidewalk in Flower Mound. The steps began after I had a surgery at the end of last year that forced me to quit my several-day-a-week running habit and scale bac ...

Rare is the person, who when encountering a stranger, can see behind the curtain of flesh like a sword that knows just where to punch into the joints and marrow to divide soul and spirit. Like an oran ...

COVID has found a lot of ways to change how life has looked for us over the past three months.  It’s restricted our calendars, stopped travel, and polarized us on subjects like racism and mask wearing ...

Pretty sure we’re all exhausted from hearing about the virus.  Probably we’re all sick to death that we might catch our death.  And it’s an absolute certainty that the rules keep changing on how best ...

“You’ll need to dress up for this tonight.”  These were the only instructions my son Allen-Michael gave to me the afternoon of our “fancy dinner.”  The kids had all signed an anniversary card and give ...

“Find a good old neighborhood. A square block of the USA. Stake your claim. Claim your space. Sink your roots & live your days. Build a fence. Close it in. Raise a lawn and grow some kids. Make a ...

Dedicated to The Senior Class of 2020 In my little corner of the earth, it will always be a Friday, March the 13th of the year 2020, that will be one to remember for all times. With a mysterious virus ...

Even after all of these years, I remember the day like it was yesterday.  The snowy, bitter cold Wisconsin March afternoon when I arrived home from college for a visit with my mom. My dad was in sunny ...

The secretary looked forward to her Easter weekend with family as she cleared her desk on what is known to Christians around the world as Maundy Thursday, the Thursday before Easter Sunday. There amid ...

In an effort to find a little quiet space, I parked myself on a cushy sofa of the elegant hotel lobby where I claimed a corner of the world for myself. Albeit for just a few moments, I sipped my coffe ...

I first became acquainted with Carol Kohankie about a year ago when she and I met through Facebook and then in person over coffee at Epic Gelato where we discussed Flower Mound history, hair care and ...