(Too much still to do, too little time, so I'm re-posting this four-year-old essay about my Christmas trees.  It  still applies--I...

At 94, Stephen Richardson still competes in rowing and running. “There are no second acts in American lives,” Sc...

Last Tuesday at preschool we did our Thanksgiving program.  We all wore pumpkins on our head and sang a Thanksgiving song.  I'm the sh...

  I am a firm believer in simplifying and using shameless shortcuts to take the terror out of cooking the Thanksgiving meal.  If you want...

--> Last year Amalia celebrated Christmas in Nicaragua, touring the outdoor nativity scenes on view everywhere.   This Chris...

(What do I do about my blog when outside writing deadlines are driving me crazy?  I re-post something from the past!  This post appeared in...