String o' Pearls

I have been so blessed in the past year or so (well, really in the past 55 years or so--but I digress).  In the days, weeks, and months foll...

At the end of October my husband and I traveled from our home in New England out to Colorado, for a visit with our oldest son and his family...

On this day when we remember all the brave men and women in uniform who selflessly serve the United States of America--and even sometimes ma...

Our second oldest son is living with us for the year.  He's trying to combine paying for a new car with putting some money away--somethi...

Sometimes it's too easy to view every small failure (and we're human, so there sure are lots of them) as a mountain and every small ...

I have always been the type who can't stand the idea of hurting someone's feelings.  Not that I never have--I'm not that good, u...

...or the next thing you know, they'll be asking for the car keys. I read a lot of blogs written by young women who are raising middle...