If you're like me, you sometimes skip to the second-last chapter of a book, just so you can find out how it ends. I always go back to...

Have you noticed that I keep putting the word retirement in quotation marks? There are a couple of reasons for that: It wasn't a plann...

This picture was taken later, at an off-leash dog park. After our less than stellar experience at dog school and his having dragged me...

Our Lady of the Wayside I went through a period of depression when I was in middle school, and my best friend couldn't understand wh...

Oh, my do I enjoy taking pictures! It's becoming a bit of an obsession, having outlasted several other hobbies and interests I've ha...