It is easy to be thankful for your children, your spouse, your family, friends, homes, jobs, possessions, opportunities, hobbies, and good food. Aside from the mysteries of balanced basting and the debate over lumpy vs. smooth mashed potatoes, Thanksgiving is an easy holiday. Not much is required of anyone, other than ovens and casserole dishes […]

No Tommy.

He loves the leaves, and yesterday was a very good leaf day. It was gusty, twirly whirly wind that spawned mini leaf-filled tornadoes. He wanted to watch.

I was in the kitchen, cleaning breakfast dishes and attempting to scrub the crusty, burned-on spots from our glasstop range. I could easily see Tommy […]