We are a month into our school year and our fourth year of homeschooling. It was not a strong academic month, but four weeks of adjusting from the...

Twenty-five years later, I can still see the bulky television in the corner of my office.It was Tuesday morning, Sept. 11, 2001, and we were on deadline to produce our...

I have kind of hit that lull in the garden season, where I’ve put in so many hours of care and while the harvest is still coming in, the garden...

It's good to be writing again, even though — if I'm honest — I don't really love the actual sitting-down-and-writing part of it. I never have. Every column starts the same...

We as consumers are being trapped into subscriptions and endless rentals, sometimes for features on products we already purchased. And the control...

Life used to feel simpler.Not simple, exactly, but simpler in the sense that fewer things demanded our attention before we could even get out the...

I’m in complete denial that summer is soon to be over, but as the garden harvest starts rolling in, I know that to be entirely true. We are...

A few weeks ago, I spent an entire afternoon on my knees in the flower bed, waging war against quack grass. If you've never pulled it, count...

Now that the heat of the summer has settled down a bit, we are loving any chance we get to do a hot breakfast, sometimes even breakfast for lunch...

We all carry a strange kind of ledger in our heads — hundreds, maybe thousands of people we've known just enough to nod to. The mail carrier who retired. The waitress who...

You know how the saying goes, “time flies when you’re having fun.” Does that mean that we have way too much fun in the summer and no fun in the...

My husband, Rolly, has been in love with trains for as long as I’ve known him. He dreamed of being a train engineer as a young boy, but was...

 All weekend I have had phrases and songs floating around in my head, calling out to me like a siren's song."So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen,...

The kitchen is the heart of the home and I like to spend time in mine… when it’s clean and ready for me to get messy again. We homeschool at the...

Grandpa Supervised It's no secret that I'm a small-town boy.I practically break out in hives at the thought of living in a concrete jungle where...