A woman told me something not long ago that I haven’t stopped thinking about. Her children are in their forties now, and she still has every school paper they ever …
“Grandma, why do you save bags inside a bag?” One of my grandkids asked me that last month. We were putting groceries away together, and I was folding the new …
Do you have a drawer in your kitchen that you open very slowly, because you know what will happen? I do. Or I did, until a few weeks ago. It’s …
Nine winter church outfits for women over 80, each for a real church day. Warm, easy to put on, and mostly built from clothes you already own.
Have you ever noticed that the best advice usually comes from someone a few steps ahead of you? Not from a book. Not from an expert on TV. From a …
After church last spring, a friend and I sat in the fellowship hall with our coffee. We were talking about my blog, and about the posts I write on decluttering. …
Does your family have a box of Christmas ornaments that has been around longer than you have? Maybe it was your grandmother’s, then your mother’s, and now it sits on …
My mother’s jewelry box sat on the top shelf of my closet for almost three years (longer than I’d like to admit). I brought it home the month we emptied …
A few weeks ago, I opened our hall closet to find an umbrella. I didn’t find the umbrella. But I found just about everything else. There were the kids’ old …
The first cool morning of fall always catches me by surprise. This week, I pulled on my old gray sweater, poured my coffee, and looked around the kitchen. And I …