Stories

My husband and I were visiting our son in Mississippi a few weeks ago. Returning home, we were booked on the last non-stop United flight out of New Orleans Sunday evening.  On the way to the airport, we got a notification that our flight was delayed.  Bill had a huge

When I started strength training 8 years ago, I couldn’t lift the 35 lb barbell. The trainers at the gym I belonged to back then were big into foundational work so we focused on my form - strengthening it, aligning it, learning how to use form properly. Slowly but

My husband and I threw an impromptu party recently for people we’ve known a long time but don’t get to see very often. We raised our kids together and, though we moved out of the area over ten years ago, we’re still close.  Wanting to spend our

Everyone says my youngest son is lucky.  When he was in high school, he could leave 10 minutes before class began and somehow manage to park right in front of the building. He still does that - drives right up to the place he wants to go and, more often

I was traveling with a friend through a foreign country. She’s black. I’m white.  We arrived at the customs line in the other country with the same amount of luggage in tow. We had one more security check before we could leave the airport. My friend was walking

A while ago, my daughter and I were at the airport. Her flight to L.A. left an hour before my flight to San Francisco.  As I waited with her at the American Airlines gate, she realized her connection was going to be shorter than she’d thought. Worried about