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Shedding our skins

New Years approaches and our thoughts turn to resolutions, to-do lists, and yes, diets. All of these themes can be boiled down to one topic:...

Just a note to say that an essay very close to my heart has been posted at Notre Dame Magazine. It concerns a battle we're waging at o...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh's book always gives me comfort, inspiration, or something to mull over. I found her book years ago when I had smal...

It's a frequently asked question on the DorothyL list . "Where's Your Bookmark?" This group brought together by mystery --...

The Internet feeds my need for information. Like that robot on the movie Short Circuit, I need more input. Today while roaming around cybers...

Time as well as money always seem to be in short supply in my life. I fear that in both cases the problem lies with me -- I spend both so un...

Don't we all create our own little prisons that we need to break out of now and then? I certainly do. In a former life I couldn't sa...

We’ ve become a couple, my husband and I. Just like that old song from the Depression era -- " Through all kinds of weather... What if...

By Dawn Goldsmith Amazing things converge and leave me wondering. Like Sunday, March 5, 2006. The “In Memoriam” segment of a politi...

It is a hopeful title for this piece, 'creating a peaceful world.' Yet, I felt hope grow as I surfed the net and saw examples of Eas...

Crisis are becoming almost commonplace. A few years ago, a bridge collapse or steam explosion, would have kept me glued to the television wh...

Whenever my brain freezes and I can't break a creative thought free of that ice flow, I turn to 'Moments in History. ' It amazes...

Last winter I received an email from my son that set my fingers tapping out a Snow Day essay. On this hot, hot, humid, did I mention HOT, Au...

Ironic that I live in a tropical climate where orange groves and lemon trees grow, producing bumper crops. And it is the lemon shake-ups, th...

One minute Derrol and I were sitting in our comfy chairs listening to the rain on our roof. Next nano-second we hear BOOOOOOM! ZAP! SIZZLE! ...

One of the exciting, thrilling things about getting old is you've seen a lot of history. And being a student when Beatlemania first hit...

Almost three years ago, we moved into the house where we now live. During that time we have lived with almost everything as the previous own...

My two sons were both born within a week of a holiday. Dave, my oldest, born just before Labor Day (seemed appropriate after 30 hours of la...

Cousin MJ is the genealogist in the family. She maintains the family archives, photographs, family tree charts, and takes the time to track...

I have reached the age of graying hair, wrinkles (just a few around the eyes) and polite young people calling me ‘ma’am.’ I never thought I...