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My friend Carmen posted on Facebook about stress and fighting it with gratitude during this crazy time. She listed the things that have made her feel better during quarantine, and asked her friends to put their list in the comments. That was a really nice starting poin...

Well, here we are. 

Before the lockdown, before the run on toilet paper and the masks and the talk of flattening curves, my husband was preparing. 

He kind of turned into one of those doomsday preppers buying tons of paper goods and laundry supplies and non-perishable fo...

That headline might feel a bit hyperbolic to you. So let's back up a space. 

We moved into this house in 2014. For six years I have lived with the supreme inconvenience of not having a back door. 

I mean, this is a big dot deal. Frankly, I'm surprised it's not a bigger i...

I'm not sure why I like the show The Ranch. I just do. 

We all have things like that in our life, don't we? Things that have no redeeming qualities to check off in your personal LIKES category, and yet...

Well, wait. There is Sam Elliott. Sam Elliott is always going to c...

Last fall I had my 35th high school reunion.

I can't remember if I wrote about it here? My co-chair and I dressed up as Tina Turner and Madonna. (We were the Class of 1984). It was an amazing weekend. The last reunion we had was the 20th, so 2004. 

This weekend the reuni...

I don't even know how to start this post except just to go ahead and drop it on you: One day this week I listened to Debbie Boone's album You Light Up My Life on the way to work. 

This is one of the oldest albums I remember listening to. We had the eight-track tape...