We love St. Patrick's Day. It is the kids' favorite meal of the year. In addition to the good food, this was a particularly lucky day. ...

in 2020, Miles got in just under the gun with his unforgettable 5th birthday celebration. It's not that COVID wasn't alive, well and...

Catherine and Graham turned 8 1/2 today! Since we find any excuse to celebrate anything and everything in our family, we just had to...

Valentine's Eve started with the most beautiful evening walk. We hiked to the highest point in Hidden Hills where we enjoyed a glorious...

We look forward to Super Bowl every year. Like everyone else, we love the food and the great commercials on TV. However, we really...

I think so often of the poem my mother asked to be recited at her "Going Away Party," (as she insisted it be called), Death is Nothing at...

The inauguration was this week, Mom, which was so bittersweet without you. I watched in disbelief as this long-awaited day unfolded on...

In 2020, amongst the many other events in my life, I made the life changing decision to purchase 200 rose bushes for my yard. If that...

After a rather busy two weeks of winter break during which I played catchup on so many things I have fallen behind on over the past nine...

Our outing today started with remembrance. Remembrance of my mother and grandmother. First we visited them both at the cemetery....

I think our Christmas celebration was different this year, in two very marked ways. First, the very real absence of my mom. She would...

The Bittersweet Tears Shed Over Graves are for Words Left Unsaid and Deeds Left Undone. Harriet Beecher Stowe Last week, as I was...

Miles Montgomery Pete "Maverick" Mitchell I have a confession to make. Top Gun is one of my all-time favorite movies. I have...

Catherine and Graham started back at school this week, in person! The 2020 terminology for this exciting day was "The Second First Day...

Since my mom passed, three months ago today, I have been keenly aware of the unsettling feeling and nature of grief that descends upon me...

Catherine took a break today from rollerskating in the backyard to tend to our new herb garden. First, I spotted her pulling out all the...

Our Thanksgiving was a bit out of the ordinary, like most of yours, I am sure. First of all, it's 2020, so nothing is ordinary. More...

We have had a run of happy moments in the past few weeks, and today was yet another to add to the growing list. Twenty-twenty has been...

Today Mom, you can finally rest in peace. And I mean really rest in peace. Although I don't imagine you are exactly resting, learning of...

Disclaimer: For those of you hoping for a Trump victory tomorrow, you might want to stop reading here. I have made it a somewhat unspoken...

It may not have been a traditional Halloween with trick or treating, but it was a lovely Halloween, nonetheless. It was low-key, which...

Our beloved Fitzy turned 11 today. My, how time flies. It seems like just yesterday that Garin and I brought him home when he was just 10...

The weather has finally cooled off (at least for a week or so). It feels like it has been an eternity of triple-digit temperatures,...

There are no words to describe the enormity of our loss. My mother. The children's grandmother. And no less, at one of the worst times...