In addition to the melodic list of favorite things that Maria sings about in The Sound of Music (which just happens to be one of my...

I’m following the new year cliché and working to clean out my spaces, to have a clean start. Last week, I uncovered the metal pencil tray...

When I was a young girl growing up in Memphis, a honeysuckle vine grew feverishly outside my bedroom window. I awakened to its sweet,...