On New Year’s Eve between last year and the one that came before, after a couple of drinks, I corralled my husband

My dad once told me he had never fully relaxed since my birth. Or maybe that he had always been slightly stressed

In the past, the first of December has signaled the raising of the Christmas tree. Messing around with the bits and pieces

Lying here in the dark, watching the first hints of blue, dawn light trickling through the red and orange oak leaves outside our