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…

There is something worse than using a portable toilet because you’re camping.

It’s using a portable toilet in a scuba suit because you…

You may remember I’m certifying in open-water scuba diving.

You may also remember I’m afraid of swimming over large objects, like whales…