My “5-Minute Memoir” is out in the March/April issue of Writer’s Digest! Check out the issue at Horizon Books, Brilliant Books and BAM in Traverse City. Here’s a PDF online for my essay “The Last Page.” I love this Writer’s Digest. If you are a (real, imagined, wannabe, professional, pubbed or unpubbed) writer, you should […]
A new beginning: The spark!
For those of you who are embarking on a new, healthy beginning, be it getting (or finally using) a gym membership, starting to run or eating better, consider this… All new beginnings start with a spark. For example, polishing off a bag of mini Milky Ways always generates a decent spark. With the pile of […]
Behold: The first snow day of the year
Ah, the first snow day of the year. There’s not much that compares to it. Snowy roads no match for sledding hill. It starts about 6 p.m. the night before. Someone (usually me) checks www.snowdaycalculator.com. It says it’s a 99% chance of a snow day. Someone (again me) announces this loudly while standing in front […]
Breakfasting on the couch
What is wrong with this picture? For one, it was not allowed in my childhood home while growing up. For another, it’s not allowed in my home now, while my kids are growing up. Without my permission or even, at any clear point, my submission, the children have started breakfasting on the couch. They have […]
T-Day Dinner: If you have sisters, you know.
It’s the time of year when women everywhere will juggle family dinners for maybe two, three or even four different sets of family. Sometimes more. We have a special kind of curse, where most of the in-laws and out-laws live within a few miles of each other. This means we never, ever have just one […]