Lately, I’ve been immersed in writing pursuits. It’s amazing how much time it can take to get them onto some medium, be it an electronic document or the standby of thousands of years—paper. The next step is even longer, reading through the new creations to make corrections, taking breaks in between. You need those breaks. Otherwise, your mind fixes the mistakes, and the piece reads as you intended regardless of what is really written. Recently, I’ve guest blogged for Delilah

Turkey Day is Thursday. Thoughts come back to me from days long ago of coloring pictures of Puritans and tracing my hand with a brown crayon on a piece of art paper to create the bird of the hour. I looked forward to a few days off from school too. Thanksgiving morning would start out with enjoying the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on television and loving all the bands, floats, and huge balloons making their way down the parade route. I knew at the very end, Santa Claus wou

Stepping outside, the sun sparkles in a crystal blue sky. That sweet, woodsy fragrance in the crisp air surrounds you. Autumn has come to the Richmond, Virginia metro area at last. This is my favorite time of year. I love being surrounded by fiery red, gold, and toasty brown leaves and watching them take flight to pirouette gracefully before coming to rest on terra firma. I don’t have a need to immediately rake up the leaves. I’ve never been a manicured lawn type. In fact, I

It’s what’s in for cat parents—accessorizing with cat fur. I have three rescues, and no matter how diligently I think I’ve de-furred, there’s always some hiding on my clothes. A long-standing joke is cats used to be gods 3,000 or so years ago and they never forgot it. Every day, in the early hours of the morning, they caterwaul for their “faithful” to prepare breakfast. We fall out of bed, sleepwalk to the kitchen, and ask, “Do you want salmon, tuna, turkey, or beef?” Expecti