Good Morning. Scott Pruitt, the embattled head of the Environmental Protection Agency, finally resigned last week amidst thirteen federal...

Good Morning. The troops on both sides of the aisle are gearing up for the 2020 presidential election, and my immediate and considerable...

Good Evening. The purchases have probably been made for hot dogs and hamburgers on the grill, potato salad, Eskimo pies, watermelon,...

Good Morning. We call it Independence Day or, more commonly, the Fourth of July because it's still a holiday we don't move around to...

Good Morning. There was no air-conditioning when I was growing up, a situation that has made me all the more grateful for it during my...

Good Morning. When my daughter's children were ten years younger than they are now and I was baby sitting over the lunch or dinner hour,...

Good Morning. After my Friday rant against people who insist on indulging their champagne taste on a beer budget, one of my subscribers...

Good Morning. I've talked about it before, but the decorating shows drive me absolutely nuts. They just plain offend my sensibilities,...

Good Morning. When I was a kid and my parents went somewhere on a Friday or Saturday night, I was okay with being babysat by a great...

Good Morning. Twenty years ago, as a fifty-something single woman, I decided to take a road trip halfway across the United States to...

Good Morning. In the past couple of days the term cult has been applied to the unwavering support of the current president by what is...

Good Morning. The deal today is to pick an entree, a vegetable, and a dessert - one from column A, one from B, and one from C - to make a...

Good Morning. I currently live in a rented house with about 1200 square feet of living space, not counting the unfinished basement I need...

Good Morning. I channel surfed while waiting for election returns this past Tuesday and landed on PBS that was airing a tribute to Mister...

Good Morning. With some reservation I offer today a menu for a vegan dinner. Where I live vegetarians are in the same category as...

Good Morning. I was awake for at least half of a six-hour thunderstorm a couple of nights ago, a particularly noisy event that compelled...

Good Morning. I'll take a crack at it. I'll try to come up with an explanation for why Roseanne Barr uttered the terrible remark about...

Good Morning. Several years ago, a new restaurant was about to open in my city and I was driving by with a seven-year-old granddaughter....

Good Morning. I planted some flowers at my husband's grave over the weekend but decided not to include one of those little flags in the...

Good Morning. Decades ago, people in certain circles had an item known as a calling card. It was a small rectangle of white or ivory card...

Good Morning. One of the best parties I went to on occasion was at the home of a fabulous couple named Bill and Sally. They were up there...

Good Morning. Okay, I got virtually every single detail wrong about the royal wedding on Saturday. The groom did not wear a red military...

Good Morning. Yes, I will set my clock and get up before dawn tomorrow to watch the wedding. This is because the great majority of the...

Good Morning. In the blink of an eye it will be my birthday. It's not a milestone, but my late husband firmly believed that a birthday,...