Unfortunately, I have had a lot of practice saying good-bye to my children. When Lindsay was six and Courtney nearly three, I became a single mother. I accepted the unwelcome ritual of helping them pack their overnight suitcases with clothes for visits to their father who, for the first two years,… Read full post »

 I don’t know if you noticed, but my leap of faith seems to have landed with a mighty thud. No sooner did I post my first blog, believing that it would be easy to write and post two or three times a week, than my college-bound daughter, who had been barely… Read full post »

Greetings to the members of Open Salon:

Today I join you. Like any new neighbor moving into a well-established and highly respected neighborhood, I am excited and a little nervous. Although I have kept a journal, off and on, for most of my life, creating a blog is a leap… Read full post »