From the time I was 11 until I was about 13, I walked a mile to the closest variety store each month to spend the few quarters I had saved t...

True. Sad. Sigh.

Oklahoma just enacted legislation (HB 2656) which allows a doctor to “withhold information, mislead or even blatantly lie to a pregnant wom...

(A recent IM with a friend:) Carol says (4:57 PM): Still no word from my guy, stranded somewhere in Italy (I think). Ann says (4:57 ...

Back in 1980, I was in (but not stuck in ) Florence when Mt. St. Helens blew… and now Aleks is in (as in, stuck in ) Milan because of the ...

April 10, 2010 Hey mom, I can only assume you are just waking up and won't check this email for a bit, or today at all. I just wante...

Tom’s father, Pete -- “Papa” to our kids -- was killed in a single-car accident in November, 2001.  Pete (“Papa”), his grandson and nam...

No matter what I do or where I go these days, Haiti is on my mind.  If I’m in the shower, I wonder how the people in Haiti are doing without...

When a badly broken ankle confined to me to my bed and to my house earlier this year, I spent an inordinate amount of time watching Jon ...

Sonia Sotomayor broke her ankle yesterday.  Like the rest of us, she doesn’t have a particular exciting story to tell (she fell while r...

I will be unavailable  this evening between 8:00 and 10:00 PM because... because... well, actually, it's because I'm doing some, um,...

Marco says (11:23 AM): Please pray for our city Carol says (11:23 AM): Oh Marco!  I AM! Carol says (11:23 AM): Are you OK? ...

E-mail from Tom to me: I don't have Elisabeth's current e-mail address, but she should be aware of this next time she visits Bloomin...

This is truly incredible!

The West Coast is known for earthquakes, and Washington State is known for rain and windstorms, but we're not normally concerned about t...

I left home once today to run to the store to get a few ingredients for the big pot of turkey soup I'm making. When I was at the grocer...

In 1991, my childhood home in the Berkeley hills nearly burned to the ground in this fire. (It was the proximity of our house to the Clare...