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So my kid is at sleepaway camp.
Yep. I drove through four states to leave my kid with strangers for five days.
Are you guys…
I turned the lock on the storm door.
You know the one — it won’t engage without a forceful inward jerk, an even more forceful…
What do the new Indiana Jones movie, my spiraling refrigerator, and Indy’s Maryland property have in common?
The answer is a story and then…
Now that my husband is all Buddy the Elf about making friends in his outdoors organization, I have met many people.
Many, many people.
I…
It’s been a bit since we had a Willie story.
We should probably check in on her.
Our check-in begins this morning, when…
When I last left you, I had saved my fridge but decimated the freezer.
But I made a bet I could save that freezer. And…
One day in 2017, Indy pulled my fridge from its kitchen nook.
I was in trouble.
Upon discovering my failure to periodically clean behind and…
I fly to Scotland in 72 hours. Sealed in a metal tube 30,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean.
Where the Titanic sank.
You know…
The dead mouse was bad enough.
But the critter situation is so much worse than one long-dead mouse in the crawl space.
You might…
I made a gruesome discovery last week.
It was Friday. The day yawned beautifully before me.
Nothing hinted at the evil lurking in the hours…
You might remember Thanksgiving, when my aunt had designs on attending dinner at my brother’s house.
A dinner my brother wasn’t hosting as…
In the 1950s, Indy bought a property in Maryland.
Indy never built anything on the property. While the rest of the neighborhood is dotted with…
If you read this column with any regularity, you may ask yourself how, exactly, one raises an adult fearful of reptiles and swimming over sunken…
Spring break has come and gone, and so has my daughter’s childhood.
Wow. That’s melodramatic.
True, but melodramatic.
Let’s start with the…
A few years ago, my husband joined an organization whose mission is public land protection.
In short order, he joined the Pennsylvania chapter’s board…
Now that I’m two-thirds of the way through the horror of scuba certification, it is time for me to tackle another challenge.
Munro…
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