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In this family, you don't check off your birthday until all relevant parties have had a chance to celebrate it with you! Today the Chica...

Thoughts on being 70 and having a new knee put in: In the middle of the night, I get up (very awkwardly) and shuffle my walker to the bathro...

Honestly, my overnight at the hospital feels luxurious. The structure itself -- a branch of the UW Hospitals and Clinics -- is new and at th...

When you fix old stuff around the home, often you're in for an upgrade. We need a new thermostat in the farmhouse. The new one will be f...

It's nuts to do gardening in such a frantic way, but this is my lot this year! (You dont have to remind me -- it is my choice.) Three up...

I think I'm losing the battle but winning the race. Or maybe it's the race that's lost but the war that is won? Here's the r...

Now comes the squeeze: the last frost day appears to be this coming Tuesday. if that's the case, then the time I have to plant the annua...

You have got to be kidding! Honestly, did we have to go in this direction? Yes, I do remember one year, not too long ago, where snow fell th...