My friend James is from Alabama. Yesterday, in a span of four hours he taught my new iPhone how to say “y’all!” I wish that I had more...

My office window at home faces the front of the house. So, when I’m at home writing I get to see all the excitement that the streets of...

A number of years ago when things got serious with me and Guy and it was time to meet the families, she told me I couldn’t meet her...

Well.....emails anyway! If you're writing for a broad enough audience, it’s impossible to make everyone happy. I may have already known...

In October 1973, the oil-producing nations that made up OPEC, proclaimed an embargo on all oil being exported to countries they felt...

My mother-in-law to-be Connie, is the reason the term old-school had to be coined. Native Italian and the embodiment of that deep...

My daughter Buck Wheat doesn’t sleep. Well, not at night anyway! She generally stays up until 4 AM or so and then sleeps until the late...

My fiancé Guy and I are a good couple; we love spending time together. For reasons known only to our biology and experiences she is the...

If you’ve ever opened a can of mixed nuts only to find it 2/3 empty AND the 1/3 that’s left is ALL almonds then congratulations; you’re a...

I dropped my daughter Buck Wheat off at the airport this morning. She was heading back to school for finals and the last few weeks of...

The Toledo War (1835–36), also known as the Michigan–Ohio War, was an almost bloodless boundary dispute between the state of Ohio and the...

I’ve got a problem with rules and authority. It’s not really a problem for me, it’s more a problem for the people who make rules and...

The more I think about it, the more strongly I feel that my life would be much better if I had been born with a trust fund! So, because...

One of the coolest features of blogging versus writing in a magazine is all the data I can get! For example, where YOU are all located!...

Guy got a new pair of shoes in the mail the other day. Not a particularly unusual occurrence in our house, but these shoes were...

If you have ever eaten with a millennial, ever been in a restaurant while a millennial was eating at another table, or have ever been in...

If the story is good enough, the book will write itself! That’s how I feel about my family’s time at Tremont Paint: the stories are so...

I FaceTime’d with my daughter Buck Wheat for an hour yesterday. I wish she had given me notice before she called so I could have run to...

I am not your typical paint geek! If I wore my passion for the creamy liquid on my sleeve, I’d paint the word “latex” on half my face and...

They say you don’t know, what you don’t know. And it’s hard to argue with that logic! I knew this transitional time I’m experiencing now...