HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY: THE GRANDMOTHER HYPOTHESIS THE GRANDMOTHER HYPOTHESIS If you ask the evolutionary question: why do women continue to live after they are no longer Read More
Memories…Do We Ever Really Leave the Nest? Do people write memoirs to hang on to the illusions of childhood? Oh so wonderful, that lost childhood! Despite my father’s Read More
Reading & Creating….The Ghosting Deer and Dylan Thomas’s FERN HILL Two weeks ago I wrote about critters…deer, a woodchuck, others who invaded my yard when I lived in Iowa. So Read More
FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD My title is taken from a song celebrated in the musical OLIVER. In typical Broadway fashion, Oliver Twist and the Read More
HOW TO CATCH A CRITTER….OR LIVE WITH THEM. WHO LIVES HERE??? When we moved from Chicago to Des Moines, Iowa, we were excited about the deck on Read More
SOLAR ECLIPSE: When Earthlings Are Not In Control: Annie Dillard; Melissa Kirsch You might have read Annie Dillard’s work: An American Childhood; Teaching a Stone to Talk. I admit that I haven’t Read More
Kitchen Memories….We All Have Them I It didn’t work out. I made my children liver sausage sandwiches with mayonnaise, garnished the top with circles of Read More