This week, both Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson passed away. Both deaths made me sad. I’d read several articles about Fawcett’s fight with cancer that shook me – remember that iconic poster of her in the red swimsuit, laughing? It was hard to believe that she could be sick – or in her sixties. It…

It’s been a pretty crazy spring for me, for us, and for a lot of people I know. Stress seems to be in the air, and all the doom and gloom in the media probably doesn’t help our attitudes very much. And while there are bad things happening to good people, I think it’s easy…

But not the illegal kind! I finally got around to ironing a bunch of shirts the other evening – they’d been hanging in the laundry room, patiently waiting, for quite a while. One had something in the front pocket. This was strange, because Mr. C. seldom puts anything in his shirt pockets. It was a…

I love sunflowers but have a hard time growing them. It seems that little creatures – birds and squirrels – eat all the seeds that I plant. Mr. C. finds this really funny – there are chickadees that actually follow me around the garden, pecking around until they eat what I’ve planted. This year, I’ve…