“What would you think about making a donation to the Ghana well fund at church with the money we would spend on doing Christmas cards...

"Do you want to spend more for your iCloud storage?”  Dan and I are getting ready for a trip, and he’s been checking off all kinds of...

I hang up the phone with my friend Karen and return a call from Lauribeth, who left a message while I talked to Karen. The web of...

I might be a pancake snob.  Don’t look for a flapjack box mix in my pantry; I don’t care whose aunt’s name is on the label.  Mom always...

"Will you cook for Thanksgiving?" A fellow teacher makes passing conversation with me. Hmmm. How do I explain our family's traditional...

You know that Boy Scout motto, “Be prepared?” While I was never a boy scout, I appreciate the sentiment, especially since I’m rarely...

If you were to hire a crew to harvest your cranberry bogs, would you call up The A-Team, or Ernie’s Angels? I use the term “hire” quite...

When asked to explain how we grow cranberries, I always begin by saying, “I’m not a real cranberry farmer. I just play one on T.V.” I...

I remember the austerity of our little one-bedroom apartment in Medford. There was so much stuff we needed and didn’t yet have. And now...

Dan told me repeatedly that October is strictly off limits for anything other than harvesting cranberries. I don’t want to believe it. ...

I walk past families and groups of friends pocketed through the lobby at the theater of Rowan College, Burlington County Campus. I am...

The end of each September for the past few years I get this earworm of Queen singing and have the hardest time replacing it. I’m...

An empty freezer fills most of the floor space in my newly-wed-nest’s kitchen. I appreciate the generosity of my first grandfather...

The ceiling of my father’s church fascinates me. I’m looking up imagining it’s Noah’s Arc turned upside down. The mellowed yellowed...

You know it’s going to happen. From the moment that baby girl has her first cry, the intellectual truth is, some day she will be a woman...

I’ve always been a one-dog woman from a one-dog kind of family. Even when I was growing-up, my parents kept a single dog at a time. ...

February 2020 Having lived with guilt of not enough time to devote to a pet, I don’t want to bring a new dog home until life is settled,...

Since we got married, Dan and I have loved and lost an enormous Newfoundland and a sporty speckled springer. Each bereavement hit hard....

Dan and I watch It’s a Wonderful Life every Christmas Season of our eight married years in the little shoebox house. (I gave him a VHS...

Dan and I are married just over a year. We live in a one-bedroom apartment in Medford, NJ. He’s working extra hard to prepare a tenant...