Seeing school supplies line the shelves of every store was a reminder that this season has ended for me. While moms across the country restocked backpacks with fresh supplies of pencils, notebooks, and either scientific calculators or crayons, this was the first time in 27 years that I didn’t. It isn’t like I was totally
I am not sure what it was that inspired me to spend the afternoon baking. Maybe it was the fact that our family’s favorite football team was having their worst game of the season. Maybe it was because I had nothing better to do. But really, I think it was the fact that I had never
The first rays of sunlight barely touched the treetops at the end of our driveway. I poured myself a second cup of coffee and paced near the big window facing the road. I was the one who scheduled the movers to come, I just hadn’t expected to be their first stop of the day. They arrived
A few years back I wrote a story for the Colfax Record about grandparenting and interviewed people who had just become grandparents for the first time. When I asked a friend, Dena Saunders, what kind of a legacy she wanted to leave for the next generation it didn’t take long to respond. “I want to