The Gift of Another Year

  Our dear granddaughter Katie has just moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she will be a professor at Wake Forest University.  I ...

 Years ago I think I wrote a blog about how Jim and I fall into fairly traditional roles in our everyday life.  I took charge of household w...

 Jim, in referring to the Chinese years of the Rat or whatever, said that this year is my “year of the hip,”. And so it is.  And again, this...

  Katie and Susan invited me to accompany them to the final decision and fitting of Katie’s wedding dress.  We drove through the New Jersey ...

 Jim takes a vitamin D pill every day.  I try to sit in the sun for ten minutes every day instead.  Sadly, there are days without sun and so...

I received three packages of books from Better World Books in today’s mail.  Jim had his arms full when he came back from the mailroom!  I d...

 A few weeks ago we decided to sign up for Community Supported Agriculture at a local farm—Stults Farm Market.  We paid a bit over $400 and ...