Life from a slightly skewed perspective

Our minds were made up: we were moving. To be clear, the concept was much easier said than done. There was the little matter of clearing...

In early January, the members of my meditation group shared our one-word intentions for 2024. I struggled with a way to express the...

Sewing for babies is way more fun than sewing for adults. Everything is smaller, takes less fabric, less time, less angst. So when our...

True story: I read the weddings in the New York Times. I don't read them to see what the bride or groom or their attendants wore....

It's funny how you can find art in unexpected places. My husband and I grew up in old houses with magical, mysterious, slightly creepy...

I know I've said this, but contrary to what my cat-loving childhood friend says, I am not a cat person. That doesn't mean I don't like...

My understanding of genetics is limited to the understanding that physical traits and characteristics get passed down from one generation...

After 42 years, my husband should know better than to leave me home alone for a week. After all, there was that time he and one of our...

And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian...

At the time, it seemed like a fine idea. Order a space saving desk with a drop down shelf for a laptop and mount it on the wall. Except...

During the summer, our patio is home to a rather beat-up primitive steamer trunk with a rusty clasp that doesn't quite connect the top to...

A recent New York Times preview of books to read this summer prompted a memory of Bluffton University (College) president, Dr. Lee...

In retrospect, I guess I shouldn't have been so surprised by the fun of creating magic with dowel rods. After all, we discovered how easy...

I am not a cat person. It's not that I don't like cats. Cats are fine. They're especially fine when they're outside. They're also fine if...

Remember Rosie, the diner waitress in the Bounty commercials? Her face was said to have "launched a billion rolls of paper towels."...

Well...maybe not ALL the furniture.... maybe just some of it... During the early days of the pandemic when very little was known about...

Somewhere in the middle of the season Ohioans know as dark and gloomy, I decided to challenge myself to finish one project per week, or...

When my brothers and I were kids, we didn't often see our dad at the stove, except when he was making fruit fly food. His regular baking...

For the past two years, there's been an elephant in our house. Technically, it's mostly been confined to my sewing room but there have...

Panic attacks are frightening, exhausting, and confusing. They can come out of nowhere; in my case, they're almost always while I'm...