On writing, living and loving

It's been a long summer. A very long summer. With early sunrises and late sunsets, no one sleeps in our household. And no one wants t...

It's been years since I've taken the older kids to a fireworks display. I don't like crowds and our oldest son panics when peop...

For most of the six years we lived in Cincinnati, we dutifully ran to the basement whenever the tornado sirens sounded. But toward the end,...

Maybe I'm just forgetting. But I seem to remember that the horrors of September 11, 2001 united our country, that partisan politics wer...