Recently, I had an appointment at the Carolina Eye Clinic. While waiting at the check-in counter, a young lady approached with a rolled up dessert, wrapped in plastic wrap. I asked her what it was and she replied that it was a Pumpkin Roll that she was delivering to her sister. I told her how [...]

I think of our family as being a fairly normal, all-around American Family. But, now and then they give me reason to question that assumption! Our grandchildren consist of four teen-agers, an almost teenager and a twenty-one year old. One or another of them is always on the run which keeps Moms forgetting where all [...]

In an earlier article, I mentioned that we had lived in Jakarta, Indonesia. That was a bittersweet experience for me. Sometimes, the three and a half years we lived there seemed like a very long time, other times it seemed like a very short span of time, with good and bad memories. It was an [...]

Holidays are for Family time. Families generally spend more time together during holidays than at any other time of the year.  But, spending time together usually means all of them have to gather at a designated place that is convenient to all and as the word Family implies, that usually means some combination of Father, [...]

This past Thanksgiving, my twelve-year old Granddaughter, Molly, wanted to help me prepare Thanksgiving Dinner. She is a bundle of energy and curiosity and wants to be in the middle of any activity that is going on. Having been in my kitchen cooking since Monday, there wasn’t all that much left to do except prepare [...]