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All five grandkids start the new school year today. That's a big wow for me! One starts fourth grade, two start first grade, and the you...

This Labor Day weekend will always stay in my memory -- for the labor-free days, for the absence of Ed, off somewhere in a boat, and for the...

This spring (was it for Mother's Day? My birthday maybe?), a daughter presented me with a gift certificate to a beautiful local spa wher...

I am getting the hang of not laboring! I'll throw out one example: it's 1p.m., and I am just finishing breakfast on the porch. It...

Well it is that for me: a weekend of rest. Feels weird. For one thing, I am incapable of "sleeping in," so I have an extra long da...

At 3 pm this afternoon, I sit down with a cup of coffee and leftover bits of a coffee cake from Mindy's in Chicago. I am home. I conside...