The Queen of All That is Ordinary

Today is the first day of September. I knew it somehow in my heart before I knew it in my head this morning, for I found myself humming thes...

My parents always made a big deal about my birthdays. I think most of the credit for this goes to Mom, but Dad was awfully jolly about my da...

I have the best parents in the world. Seriously. They are A-MAZ-ING people, both of them, and they have always put a lot of effort into pare...

My apologies. I had to put something of a pun in the heading to this post, because Don would have.  Don is my uncle, and he died a year ago ...

Sometimes it still startles me that I live in the South--and by that I mean the true, cliche-heavy South. That's quite silly, of course,...

I haven't written anything in a bit because I have been a complete and utter slug. Look at the state of my housekeeping the past couple ...

I was cooking dinner tonight, humming something or other and stirring the lamb masala, when Ben called me. He had just left to walk the dog ...