Feminine Wiles

Darling Daughter is about to leave for college. Don’t ask me when, because for once in my life, I’m not keeping a daily coun...

Sigh.  A few days ago, Julia ran her last high school cross country meet here in Charlotte. And hoo boy, she sure wrapped things up i...

I choose to refer to it as an "adventure." True, I turned 50 two weeks ago.  I turned 50, sold my house and put a con...

I sleep with a bar of soap. It's not what you think.   Unless  you think that a white cake of Dial or Irish Spring (but not Ivory...

What was I thinking? Or really, when I signed up for the 35 th Cooper River Bridge Run , was I thinking at all? Apparently not, ...

Yesterday morning, I sectioned three grapefruits, sliced two Fuji apples, diced a couple of pineapples, and snipped two pounds of grapes int...

Nearly 17 years ago, as soon-to-be-parents, and before settling on "Carter," we considered a number of names for our son, includin...

Lionel, our "indoor" cat, making his way through snow earlier this season. Just two days ago, the gas gauge on my beloved Hon...

Yesterday, in the words of one of my favorite children’s books*, was a “ terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day .”  I was unsettled.  Ou...

I never flinch when one of my beloved offspring declares me the “ Worst Mom Ever ,” because to be honest, they don’t know the half of it. ...

Surely, slowly, and then quickly, my money’s flowing into a big watery hole known as Lake Wylie. When I bought my little Sea-Ray, my trust...