November 14, 2022
On election day 2022, I was driving past Timber Lane Elementary, which doubles as a polling place. In front of the school along with the candidates’ political signs was a sign objecting to government mandates imposed during the pandemic. DOWN…Continue Reading →
August 19, 2022
As soon as I could read, I fell in love with books. Reading took me out of the life I was living. No longer was I an isolated girl in a small military town on the coast of North Carolina….Continue Reading →
July 5, 2022
Bunions and hammer toes: if you do not know what they are, count your blessings. Most people with these painful conditions blame their shoes. Women blame wearing high heels or other ill-fitting shoes, but these conditions are often hereditary. My…Continue Reading →
March 29, 2022
In the summer of ’09, my husband John and I took a train from Krakow, Poland to Lviv, Ukraine. When we arrived at the border between Poland and Ukraine, we had to get off the train in the Polish city…Continue Reading →