Last year at this time I found myself slip-sliding into 2016 with almost none of the thought and intention that I usually had brought to the...

I live in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. Yes, that Falcon Heights. Last Wednesday night, six blocks from my house, Philando Castile was pulle...

A couple of months ago I wrote that lots of home projects were calling to me, but I couldn't get to them because of my obligations to ...

When my sister and I were little girls, our dad used to read us a short bedtime story each night. Many came from a 1950s collection of nurse...

Our house is full of the "stuff" of our lives. We are ready, and in fact we have begun, to divest ourselves of this stuff--clothin...