Connor and Helen Grow Up

Love. It's everywhere you look. You can choose to embrace it, ignore it, or call it something else. But for me, it's the energy that...

My sister's children are in their teens. They could easily choose to graph their iGadgets and ignore Helen and Connor. But they don'...

My parents have played bridge (the card game) longer than I've been alive. I remember watching them play with curiosity. Several years a...

Posting late on this one, but hat tip to my dear friend Martin, who drove out to visit me at my sister's home last night. It's alway...

My dad has put a ridiculous number of miles on his car to move me from dwelling to dwelling or ferrying me from one place to another. It...

Connor and Helen dream about decidedly different things. Helen likes families, happy endings, musical instruments, and her brother. Connor l...

My fitness goal for next year is to run a half marathon, and I'm hoping to do it in 8 minute miles. This is a ridiculously crazy goal fo...

I know this is on the wrong day, but time got away from me last night and I did want to post an act of love for November 23. Before Ed and...

Helen loves playing the role of mom. She told me a few weeks ago that when they play family at school she always wants to be the mom. Why? B...

I have grown to understand that there are "pet people" and there are "not pet people". My feet are firmly planted in th...