City Girl

David is entering his ninth week since his knee replacement surgery, and life is slowly getting back to normal. […]

I’m often asked where I get the ideas for my columns. […]

Since Kodak made some of the first personal cameras available in the late 1800s, people have loved to show off pictures of their children and grandchildren. […]

Some of my recent columns have focused on the fact that people of a certain age – people like me – tend to talk about the past – a lot. […]

In a column in late July, I began with a warning that, at this stage in my life, many of my columns consist at least in part of memories of days gone by. […]

When you’re stuck at home recovering from knee replacement, or caring for someone who is recovering from knee replacement, you watch TV – a LOT of TV. […]

Throughout the years, there have been many ways of calling the family to the dinner table. […]

Last Thursday could have been a really bad day. […]

Last week while I was sitting in the surgery waiting room while the doctor replaced one of David’s defective parts, I was texting with my son. […]

One of my favorite scenes from the movie Forrest Gump happens when Forrest sees his friend Dan Taylor, who lost both legs in Vietnam, walking across his lawn to attend his wedding. […]