“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.” Anatole France, French novelist (1844 – 1924) Continue reading Mid-week Wisdom: Some notes on working vacations
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Today would have been my mother’s 95th birthday. This Nevada Appeal column published on July 14,… Continue reading Coming home to a place I’ve never been
This piece was first published in the Nevada Appeal in 2003. I’ve passed many more milestones since that time. Retirement, … Continue reading More milestones, nearly twenty years later…
“All my best friends move away; they get divorced or their husbands are transferred. All of them move, but not like this. Not with bombs and broken glass in the night and the FBI. Not like this.” Continue reading Losing a friend shouldn’t happen like this
“Housework, if done properly, can kill you.” ~Erma Bombeck This piece was first published in the Nevada Appeal about twenty … Continue reading My wish: A house that’s just clean enough
Almost twenty years ago I wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal about a trip to Ireland I took with … Continue reading Coming home to a place I’ve never been
This column first appeared in The Nevada Appeal, February 19, 2003 while I was still working as a literacy specialist … Continue reading Reading, like riding a bike, takes practice
This column appeared in The Nevada Appeal in 2002, when I was DEEP into scrapbooking. I am no longer. While … Continue reading Scrapbooks turn the pages of our lives
This column originally appeared in the Nevada Appeal on December 5, 2001, almost twenty years ago. September 11 was still … Continue reading There’s no place like home for the holidays
Originally published in The Nevada Appeal on September 26, 2001 My Own Battlefields in This New War “It’s awful here. … Continue reading Remembering the day the world changed
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