I have a few friends of whom I'm consistently envious. Why? They go to concerts, festivals, vacations; they see shows and movies; they...

This summer has been a bit of a butt-kicker in the Myers house. A week or two after my daughter was sick with a virus that brought with...

They were our best yard sale customers of the day. They bought a picnic quilt from my mom. Then some toys. Then they picked out some...

When I was a college freshman, a simple reading assignment could take hours. I would read a little, chat a little, read a little, eat a...

“You screwed up.“ Ouch. That’s a rough way to start an email. I wasn’t the recipient, yet I was feeling defensive. I didn't even know the...

One of my best dresses? Check. Good breakfast? Check. Research? Visual aids? Slide advancer? Check. Check. Check. I was ready. I had...

"Money can't buy happiness." I've heard it. I've said it. I believe it. But money can make life a bit easier. There's the big stuff, of...

The traffic came to a complete stop. I had been making good time on the way to my son's baseball game after work. And then all of a...

"How are you?" "Good. How are you?" "Good, thanks." Now what? Lots of conversations start that way and quickly go nowhere.  You haven't...

My mom is the sixth child in a family of twelve, so my grandparents' fiftieth wedding anniversary many years ago was quite an...

"I have written more in the past few weeks than I have since I graduated college with my creative writing degree 11 years ago," my friend...

"You've got holes in another pair of jeans?! How many is that?" If you were walking down our street recently, you likely would have heard...

It’s my worst nightmare...speaking in front of an audience that slowly get smaller and smaller. Person after person standing up and...

What mother tells her children that what she really wants for Mother's Day is to be by herself? This one. I had mentioned wanting time to...

My daughter was acting uncharacteristically jumpy and frenetic. It was confusing and annoying until I asked her what was really going on....

As our meeting wrapped up, I volunteered to send a recap to everyone, particularly for the benefit of the committee member who wasn't...

"I messed that up. I'm sorry." Those six words are powerful, aren't they? Presumably, you've been both the victim and the perpetrator of...

"No, I won't send that." "Why not?" "Because it's unfair to our members, who have paid a lot of money for those materials. And it's a...

I spend a lot of time trying to convince others not to argue with reality, because it's a fight they'll never win. I've repeatedly urged...

I ended up in the emergency room last Friday night. On her way to work, my sister stopped behind a car whose driver was waiting to turn...