I’m Feasting on Pickles While I Wait for a Baby!

Corn, Hot Roast Beef Sandwich, Pinot, and PICKLES! Green Olives and the Baby Jesus Confession: I love pickles. Dills, bread-and-butters, sweet baby gherkins, cherry peppers–I’ve seldom met a pickle that I didn’t adore. Ditto their relatives, the olives. As a child, I often cleaned out the relish plate at the end of holiday meals, mounting one […]


Turning to a New Chapter

Our Wedding Day. September 2, 2007. Summary and PrologueAnniversaries are a bit like that, aren’t they? We reflect on our shared history, wonder what the coming year will bring us. My husband Rich and I, who married in middle age, each with our own history of priors, just celebrated our fourth anniversary. I think this […]


My Stowaway Heart

The Party Wagon. Mission Bay, San Diego. July 30, 2011.   Parachuting to Praise Yesterday my daughter Elaine, her husband Rob, and two our our grandchildren, Cadence and Sawyer, boarded a jet and flew off to begin their new life in Hawaii. With the luxury of foreknowledge, we’ve enjoyed extra time together over these past […]


>Within His Grasp

> Sawyer, Eyeing the Cross. July, 2011. Hold on Tight! Our eight-month-old grandson Sawyer will happily sit in his car seat for long periods of time. But once removed, he will not willingly return to it. Once he’s been set free, he’d rather be held.  So a few weeks ago when the family went bowling […]


Within His Grasp

Sawyer, Eyeing the Cross. July, 2011. Hold on Tight! Our eight-month-old grandson Sawyer will happily sit in his car seat for long periods of time. But once removed, he will not willingly return to it. Once he’s been set free, he’d rather be held.  So a few weeks ago when the family went bowling to […]