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Oh help me. How can it be Weds already? Time is galloping. Has it been two years since Emilia was born literally the day before the pandemic began in earnest here? Yes. Now look ... If it makes any difference, I do talk to you a lot. I have all kinds of stuff to...

So this morning I asked Chip, my media-minded husband, if there was any good news. "Well, Ukraine is still holding back the Russians," he said. I was hoping for better. I was hoping for a miracle. I decided not to turn on the radio or scan the headlines. I went...

I used to look at those old photos of ghosts. Have you ever seen them? The ones of the monks in some ancient cathedral, walking down the aisle in their hooded robes, only instead of full height, feet on the floor, they appear to be waist deep in a river of stone...

On the way to Florida I was apprehensive. I pay attention to the news and it's not all sunny down there. But there was no rumble on the flight. No one needed to be whacked with a coffee pot. In Publix, the big grocery store, there were masks and no masks, but the vibe...

How does that Kaci Musgrave song about  family  go? "You get what you get, and you don't get to pick 'em. They might smoke like chimneys, but give you their kidneys. Yeah friends come in handy but family is family." I was humming that a lot last week in Ocala with my...

My cousin and I were corresponding about Papa Bob, and life and death and probate, and he signed the email, "Much Love and Hope" --  which pretty sums it up doesn't it? The only things that are going to carry us through winter, Covid, crazy politics, the only things...