We are heading back to see our friends, Arnelle and Rodger. The wisteria is in bloom, the scent is leading us, the trees along the roadside have a few days of hush green before shouting spring. White clouds have settled…

  Thank you, friends, for your generous wisdom and kindness in your comments and messages regarding the woman who thought I was 75. It wasn't the age thing that got me; it was that she thought she could insult me…

  Glorious spring. — Tell me, have you ever had dear friends get a divorce? If so, how did it affect your relationship with them?  

  I gotta let it go. And I have. Though it happened again, testing me, I suppose.  We often think 15 years is much older than we are and an eternity from where we stand, and 15 years younger is…

Bev S. said:   My daughter-in-law was asked to substitute at that school on Monday.   But opted for another private school (which was supposedly on the shooter's list).   She had subbed for the 3rd-grade class the Monday before…