Last week’s travel schedule consisted of numerous flights as I traversed back and forth across the country. The first leg of the trip began before dawn and ended during the wee hours of the night. As a frugal consumer, I’ll take the Red Eye, the Stink Eye, or even the Evil Eye if I can…

When exactly did it become acceptable to wear one’s pajamas in public? For years, this practice was most commonly seen in Wal-Marts across the country. But the increasing trend of folks strutting around in their pajamas in stores, restaurants, and hotel lobbies has now reached epidemic proportions. Some hotel guests feel that by paying for…

Tired of vacuuming and at the urging of many guests, I bought a robotic vacuum. The set-up was easy and the instructions implied that the robot was trainable and would work unsupervised. We named her “Rosie” after the Jetson’s robot maid, though after filling out her online birth certificate, I learned that thousands of others…

I’ve spent most of my life being invisible and keeping my private life just that—private. I was a proud outlier, an anomaly by refusing to jump on the social media bandwagon. A few years ago I finally relented, creating a Facebook page solely for the purpose of communicating with others in K9 rescue. Besides people…

I believe the whole “grow where you’re planted” thing is just an uplifting idiom created to make people feel better about where they are living; an encouraging affirmation to make us accept where we are instead of where we would like to be. Because of employment, family obligation, or some innate nomadic gene, we move…

Featured prominently in my novel, Solitary Refinement, is Snaggletooth, bedraggled mongrel and beloved dog of our protagonist, Angela Morgan. While everyone in the exclusive little hamlet of Bryn Mawr is purchasing designer dogs for an incalculable amount of money, Angela adopts Snaggletooth, a hard luck case from the Humane Society. She is constantly at odds…

Memorial Day weekend began by looking for an old photograph. Sounds simple enough, but one box led to another until I was up to my knees in photos, slides, and reels of old film. Having already populated the pages of a dozen photo albums, I thought that I’d found what I was looking for. I…

Welcome to my new website. I’m glad you’re here! I hope you will find this a casual, hospitable place to visit; a place where you can kick your shoes off and unwind from the stresses of the day. Perhaps take away something to put away for safekeeping, brought out as a gentle reminder that we…