In Our Own Backyard

I was startled one day as I was going through the checkout counter at a women's clothing store. The clerk scanning the price tag on a sweater I was buying commented, "You obviously must like purple!" I did kind of a double take, wondering what it was that brought her to that conclusion....

We had a web chat with one of our daughters on the East Coast recently, and the conversation inevitably came around to talk of the weather. When we told her we still had a foot of snow in the woods, with temperatures in the 20s, she glibly reported the snow in their yard was completely...

I was around kindergarten age when my family first got a television set. It was black and white, the kind with a screen with rounded corners set into a cabinet. It was a big deal for us, because prior to that we simply listened to the radio. My dad climbed a giant white pine tree...

When my husband and I were in church last Sunday, the minister spoke of how high the snowdrifts were when most of us were young, especially compared to today's temperate winters. Those of us in the congregation glanced at each other knowingly, remembering those days and wondering...

I've always considered myself something of a liberated woman. After all, I grew up in the Sixties and Seventies, during the days of the women's lib movement, Gloria Steinem and bra burning (don't worry, Mom - I'm not that liberated!). I can capably manage my own bank accounts, check...

For the past two weeks, I've been living in the past. While there are those who would suggest that I do a whole lot of that, this was something a bit out of the ordinary. You see, my son Jason is getting married in April, and I have been entrusted with putting together a slideshow...