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...

I keep going over my checklist and making sure we are ready for our big birding day. Directions sent home? Check. Permission Slips?...

Since dipping a toe into the bird pool, my librarian friend, Shayne and I want to swim all the way across. “I’ve always wanted to be an...

I think of binocular toting people who say things like, “Did you hear that Yellow-bellied Sapsucker?” as a breed apart themselves....

The summer streets of Washington D.C. are crowded with tourists, government officials, and the people who work them daily. My...

Mamaw Sanford lives three miles out of town, down a dirt lane that turns off a gravel road. Her little white house sits at the bottom of...

The conference center climate control cannot correct for varying levels of belief scattered through the ballroom. Our speaker is dynamic....

I do love a good hike. . . when I am secure the trail is well-marked, the path not dangerous, the view rewarding and worth the effort . ....

I can’t imagine what it takes to maintain a vacation home. Lots of folks I know spend time at their shore houses. I think about the cost...