Doggone gone dog: Not Our Dog
The two of us were walking early one Sunday morning, on our long walk far from home and back, when out of the woods...
Sometimes we need comfort food
A chef, an acquaintance, told me he was working at a busy small café where they offered gourmet-type sandwiches like roast beef with horseradish...
A moment of perfect harmony
I remember one moment when the world, at least my little world, rested in perfect harmony. This wasn’t my only such moment, but the...
High school sports? Not me.
Someone asked me recently what sports I played in high school, as if everybody in high school plays sports. I was not a sports...
Don’t listen. It’s a tradition.
This is the season when schools and college all over America invite wise and/or famous persons to address graduating classes, so that these mature...
‘Mom, do you know my name?’
By Janice Elizabeth Berte
It all started out so innocently when I visited my mother years ago, and I would notice that asking her basic...
Vacation of waits
By Janice Lindsay
Somebody said that happiness lies in the journey, not in the destination. Here’s hoping that your journey-happiness is happier than our journey-happiness...
Monstrous races
By Janice Lindsay
“We never saw those people, we don’t know them, we’ve never been where they live, they’ve never been here, so obviously they...
What would you eat if….?
By Janice Lindsay
I once conducted a Lindsay Food Preference E-Mail Survey. After answering the one-question survey, one participant wrote, “I can hear my arteries...
May pays tribute to older Americans
By Sondra L. Shapiro
From the local supermarket to Walt Disney World, there seems to be more gray hair in the crowd, a sure sign...
