I lost my cellphone a few months ago. There’s hardly anything more disruptive to your life, but once it’s gone, there’s not much you ca...

I’m back! Back from the wedding abyss. Back from the beautiful fall colors in New Jersey. Back to the Austin days when you can leave all t...

You may be wondering where I've been these past few weeks. There's a song by the group, Sugarland, with a line that goes, "...

I didn’t grow up liking fresh tomatoes. In fact, for most of my life, I avoided tomatoes as tasteless and of a texture I didn’t lik...

Not everyone gets good in-laws. And very few get really great in-laws. I am one of the lucky few. Adding to that good fortune, yesterday,...

On an airplane a couple of days ago, I was reading the latest issue of Writers’ Digest , in which the editors took on a theme of “Top Ten” a...

As of about three weeks ago, my husband and I have become part of the great North/South seasonal migration. After last summer’s 66+ days ...

I really didn’t want to go grocery shopping yesterday, and we’d eaten the only frozen pizza we had a few nights ago; so once again, I was ...

The thermometer here in Austin has been in the 90s almost every day for the longest, and all I could think of was... gelatin salad. I’ve ...

I spent four days last week at the beach, writing with another woman who is both a lifelong friend and a writer. We drove to the Texa...