Newest Essay: one sweet cloud-shopping trip:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0719/p18s02-hfes.html

New Story: What was the secret ingredient in that cake?

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0621/p18s03-hfes.html

New!: A role model flips over pancakes . . .

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0511/p18s04-hfes.html

The river souvenir I still treasure.

http://csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/durableRedirect.pl?/durable/2001/06/25/p19s2.htm

My Christmas essay, in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/lifestyle/152276_treeenvy13.html?
searchpagefrom=1&searchdiff=3

We had a potato mystery served up every Thanksgiving:

http://www.christiansciencemonitor.org/2002/1127/p22s03-hfes.htm

Once upon a time, I could actually cook but then . . .:

http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2002/0422/p22s02-hfes.html

How I fell in love with a lawn-mower:

http://www.prwa.net/pages-links/News%20items/
Time%20Machine%20that%20cuts%20grass.htm

Our bird-fascination phase:

http://csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/durableRedirect.pl?/durable/
1997/08/22/home/home.1.html

The night my commute turned unearthly:

http://www.christiansciencemonitor.org/2002/0221/p22s05-hfes.html

What I learned about being "pie challenged."

http://www.senioryears.com/pie.html

I'm just a tiny bit dictionary-obsessed!

http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1018/p22s1-hfes.htm

My short, not-so-brilliant career as a boyfriend impresser.

http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/2001/06/06/p23s2.htm

A telephone long-distance carrier tries to guilt me out.

http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/1998/04/16/p19s2.htm

Why I grew up playing pinball.

http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/1998/03/11/home/home.1.html

My husband's love letters are truly heavy.

http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/2001/07/27/p22s1.htm

The rodent who loved me.

http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/2001/04/30/fp18s2-csm.shtml

The mystery of the library only my family used.

http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/1997/11/05/home/home.1.html

My husband destroys--I mean "remodels" our house.

http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/1999/04/29/p22s1.htm

That green thumb of mine is not always appreciated.

http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/1997/10/09/home/home.1.html

I'm "floored" by our kitchen remodel.

http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/1998/06/15/p8s1.htm

My "sew, sew" seamstress saga.

http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/1997/09/10/home/home.1.html

Has anyone else seen this flag man?

http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/2000/07/12/f-p18s1.shtml

Growing up with Paul Harvey

http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/1998/06/29/f-p8s1.htm

The weirdest gift I ever received . . .and I'm still using it.

http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/1998/08/10/p8s1.htm

I sing even though my husband would pay me good money not to.

http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/1998/12/16/f-p22s1.shtml

Yet another craft banned in my household.

http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/1999/01/25/f-p18s1.shtml

This tribute to my fifth-grade teacher, Mr. Rinehart, has been reprinted in CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE TEACHER'S SOUL.

http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/1998/05/28/p8s1.htm

I see beauty in an unlikely spot.

http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/1998/12/21/f-p19s2.shtml

I'll never complete a knitting project, but I'm saving the yarn and needles.

http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/2000/07/21/f-p22s1.shtml

"If we buy this hammock," I asked my husband, "will we actually use it?"

http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/2001/07/09/p23s2.htm

Mom would tell us these crazy stories about the guy she dated in high school.

http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/1998/10/22/p8s1.htm

When I tell my son I've put something important in a safe place, he blanches.

http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/1999/01/04/f-p19s2.shtml

The Three Stooges and me.

http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/1999/01/20/f-p22s1.shtml

We just had to have that cuckoo clock.

http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/1998/11/20/f-p22s1.shtml

READER'S DIGEST reprinted this story about my sullen winter day.

http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/1999/03/05/f-p22s1.shtml

How my ancient pink couch figures into our love story.

http://csmonitor.com/2001/1115/p22s1-hfes.html

My husband decides he will read to me.

http://csmonitor.com/2001/1129/p22s1-hfes.html

The first essay I wrote--and "hands down" my favorite:

Find out how artistic I'm not in this essay, which appeared on a can of Story House coffee. Scroll down the page to find "A Clayful Compliment":

http://www.storyhouse.com/stories/