Pickles and Onions

**whoops - quite a number of posts didn't publish. Here they come, waaaay overdue!** This post is already a month overdue. Change ...

I mentioned in July 2012 that there were a number of worries bouncing around the House of Joy. Back then I wrote “ I may share them, when ...

PJ is Four Months today! One-third of his first year is already over - remember when it all began ? This weekend I closed up the first ...

PJ was born in July 2011 . It is now September 2011. Between then and now – and unlike the mythology of motherhood – there have been more ...

This week a Colorado cousin and two of her college friends stopped over in Heidelberg as part of their six week trip around Europe. Togethe...

2010 is coming to an end and I, for one, cannot believe that it has already been one complete year since we celebrated the beginning of 2010...

I celebrated the mystical turn into the big 3-0 recently with tons of chili, peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips, and friends dear an...

I was in Ireland this past weekend for a very intensive creative writing course. When I stepped into my rental car in Dublin, I saw this ref...