When I picked up a recent call from my longest standing friend—she sounded serious and slightly panicked. “Kathy, You’re NOT gonna believe this.” As my BFF in grade school, I knew her well. Back then we had imagined ourselves intrepid detectives, sneaking out one night in our pea coats and baby doll PJ’s to investigate […]

Last November, my sister and I distracted ourselves while waiting for good news on our mom’s hip replacement surgery. Her surgery went so well that we did not get as far down our scavenger photo list as we did when similar shenanigans entertained us years ago. We did it just so we would not go […]