It’s Thanksgiving Day! I have so many things to be thankful for this year. My children are happy and healthy and so are my parents. I’m particularly thankful that my parents are doing so well…

Yesterday was Mother’s Day here in the US, and I had a hard time with it. For some reason I kept dwelling on a particularly memorable Mother’s Day when…

My mother and father were married back in the 1950s. Dad had graduated from college a few months before and was ready to begin his Adult Life.
Mom? Well, Mom dropped out of school to get married. That’s what many young women did back in Mississippi in the 1950s. After high school, they…