I am excited to share that I have a story, A Revolutionary Tradition, published in Chicken Soup for the Soul: That Christmas Feeling. The book is filled with stories about the funny, meaningful and unexpected things that happen during the holidays. It goes on sale September 29th in bookstores and…
As my husband drove us home from a short trek to Washington, DC, all of a sudden he said, “100,000 miles.” The odometer had just rolled over. I thought about all the road tripping we have done in this car from our home in southeast Pennsyvlania: Maine, Nantucket, Pittsburgh, as…
Watching House Hunters International, the man and woman searching for a home in Europe showed a photo of their younger selves as they spoke about their history as a couple. “That is a big snowman!,” I said to my husband. The man stood behind the large body section of the…
While in Park City, Utah, I went on the one-hour guided tour of the 400-acre Olympic Park. The Winter Games were held here in 2002 and in 2034 they will host them again. Before the tour began, my husband and I spent some time exploring the Olympic museum. There are…
We have jumped the shark . . . er, the parrot. The Great Pumpkin has sprinkled its pumpkinness everywhere and you either love it or you hate it. The early arrival of the flavor, before summer is officially over, is of great debate. There are pumpkin Little Debbies, Goldfish Crackers,…
For Part 1, click here. For Part 2, click here. For Part 3, click here. For Part 4, click here. Sunrise I had set the alarm for 6 am to watch the sun come up from inside my dome at Clear Sky Resorts in Cannonville, Utah. Waking up…
You drive 150 miles from home on a rainy Saturday. You sit for 5 hours in the rain the next day watching your Super Bowl Champion Seattle Seahawks lose to an “easy win.” You have 2 rum & Coke at a favorite spot, Crystal City Sports Pub, along with a…
For Part 1, click here. For Part 2, click here. For Part 3, click here. We were back at our dome at Clear Sky Resorts in Cannonville, Utah after dinner at the property’s restaurant,Sky Nova, before sunset. Getting comfortable in the Adirondack chairs on our patio, my husband and…
When you are working with an aggressive itinerary, decisions, sometime difficult, have to be made about how much time you can spend at one place. Arriving at Zion National Park in mid-May, my husband and I got a sense of how busy the park was based on the fact that…
While going through files in our cabinet to clean it out as much as possible, I spent some time going though the “Piper” folder. Its sections include saved tags of his favorite toys taped to stock paper to make reordering easier, reports from his annual checkups at the vet, instructions…
