Grandparenting: One Size Fits None

Casey Renee, About One Hour Old. August 5, 2013 Impossible . . .  One of my anthropology professors liked to paraphrase Heraclitus. You can’t swim in the same river twice, he would tell us. The older I get, the more I feel the truth of it: stuff changes. On this earth, just about everything is dynamic. When I think of […]


Who Am I To Judge?

Caution:  I’m going to talk about some difficult subjects in this post. I hope to do so respectfully and with love. I anticipate that some of you will disagree–perhaps vehemently–with my position. Maybe you think I’ve gone too far. Maybe you think I didn’t go nearly far enough. I want to know your thoughts, but I […]


Made for Forever

Gamble House, Pasadena. Front Entry. September, 2012. Built to LastCalifornia is unrelentingly young. We have no Anasazi ruins, no medieval castles, no Renaissance cathedrals. But we love our historic treasures all the same. Pasadena is known for her Arts and Crafts bungalows. And the queen of those bungalows is the Gamble House, built in 1907-1908. This old house, […]


On Being a Not-So-Bad Wife

My Awesome Husband Rich, Most of our Kids, Some of our Grandkids, One Brother-in-Law. April, 2011 Could Be Worse…. You know how sometimes a family just rolls along on autopilot, free from major life events, unexpected calamities, and nonstop excitement? Yeah. Me neither.   This year is proving to be as eventful as any other. […]


On Being a Not-So-Bad Wife

My Awesome Husband Rich, Most of our Kids, Some of our Grandkids, One Brother-in-Law. April, 2011 Could Be Worse…. You know how sometimes a family just rolls along on autopilot, free from major life events, unexpected calamities, and nonstop excitement? Yeah. Me neither.   This year is proving to be as eventful as any other. […]