The wheels on the shopping cart hummed. Even though it was a Thursday afternoon, March 12 to be exact, the white noise...

Not a day goes by that I don’t hear someone joking or lamenting about 2020. No argument here. In some ways, the last...

October greets us with a sea of orange and yellow. Large pumpkins appear in grocery store bins as children and parents...

I slipped the blades of my pruners around the stem and squeezed. Tossing the young, tender okra pod into my bucket, I...

I watched in amazement last spring as my third-grade daughter gazed at the faces of her teachers on my laptop screen....

Summer looks different this year, doesn’t it? In my household, there were no “last day of school” hurrahs and end of...

The reddish-orange trumpeted orbs glowed in the late afternoon sunlight. As I sat comfortably on my patio furniture, I...

With every arm-stiffening, back-tightening load, my calf muscles burned in protest. Still, I willed myself to make it...

Shafts of light peek through the bedroom curtains. I awake to silence -- no hum of the heater or purr of the air...

A beautiful late winter afternoon beckoned me to the garden. I grabbed the pitchfork and plopped it into the...

The eastern sun warmed my back. Droplets glistened on adolescent tomato leaves. Melodies of the birds tickled my ears....

Do you ever get stuck in a gift-giving rut? Every year you set out to find that “perfect” gift, but you end up...