Purses on a playdate in a Mexican restaurant Growing up, we weren’t supposed to be copycats, and being the oldest and kind of solitary, I...

Me a few years before I began writing this book in my head Today I finished my final revision on my novel, The Divorce Girl, which is...

When it was mentioned in a newspaper article that the poet laureate read a poem at a rally, someone remarked sarcastically, “Yeah,...

Dinner If only. I would be more than happy to pack up this searing heat and send it below and beyond, but I’m afraid that the devil is...

NFTY — the National Federation of Temple Youth — was the national organization that helped fuel youth groups of reform Jewish synagogues,...

Later she would say it was a miracle. Afterward he would tell friends it happened just in time. Someone answered the phone. Someone took...

“Oh, all of us felt that way,” Wilma said. “You’ll get used to it,” Eleanor added. They took off their rings, showing me how their...

Twister a day after the tornado About six weeks ago, I reported on a newborn kitten who survived the Joplin Tornado against all odds: her...

There’s been a lot to be upset about in Kansas since the election of our new governor, much that affects people I love and me, but...

In Kansas in the summer, we’ve become experts on this! Here’s some ideas: Sit in a comfortable chair, slumped down for extra comfort, in...

Judy, a long-time Zen Buddhist and teacher at our local Zen Center, has been at this for almost a month now, and I think of her...

Last night, right in the middle of Kelley Hunt and her band performing "These Are the Days" (a song we co-wrote), time stopped and the moment sealed around me. Kelley was singing her heart out, her band -- an amazing bassist, drummer and guitarist -- were playing to perfection, and a giant fan to my left blew wind across my face as I sat with 5o or so others in the giant warehouse-type studio of the gracious, kind and talented Stan Herd . The dim light of the coming evening

In the past few days, I’ve heard from two friends who lost close friends, another diagnosed with cancer, several facing financial despair...

With our midwife Ginger right before the birth 22 years ago Daniel was born, catapulting me into the land of no return otherwise known as...

Take the mail, for instance, and the irrational thrill of a big pile of envelopes, ferreting out the half of them that instantly go into...

From the 14th floor of the hotel in downtown St. Paul, my family and I watch an obscure documentary on Russia after the Soviet Union...

We're not going here The breeze is cool, the sky bright and the van back hatch open. Inside the house, there’s boxes of food and...

“Welcome to adulthood!”I told my 19-year-old daughter yesterday as she waited in line in a bank with a migraine. She had just told me, “I...

Both Clemons and Springsteen tell the story of how they met: Bruce was playing a club in Asbury Park when Clemons came to check out this...

My dad blessing the challah at our wedding while Arden Booth and my sister Jen look on Lately, I see friends use their father’s pictures...