We just celebrated Kate's 1st birthday!  She is quite the interesting personality...very stoic and hard to impress. She likes to ha...

I have two things I wanted to write about today. First, the books I ended up reading on our vacation to Kauai.  Terry Pratchett Dis...

The Hat A sure-fire way to seal the deal when selling cookies. 

The champion! It's been a long time since I've had to do something I really, really didn't want to do. Therefore I was l...

Kate's new trick--kneeling up! Well, the Christmas decorations are down. The nissemen, the nativity, the garlands, the baubles, t...

January is a slow month. The excitement of Christmas over, the gloom of winter stretching before me with no end in sight. I've just...

Hello! I'm just finishing up the First Annual New Year's Writing Retreat, attendance of 1. As it so happens, we needed a one-nigh...