A wrestling match? What should I wear? I’d never even seen a match on TV. These were my first thoughts as I accepted the invitation to...

About five years have passed since we’ve had a dog to share our lives with us. We have had several, some purebred as well as our...

While sitting across the table eating egg-rolls and listening to a friend’s husband describe the complexities of coupling wires, I was...

Recently I read an article about the importance of friendship which reiterated much of what I had thought for many years. My friends,...

My mother was never much of a baker but I always have enjoyed the chance to get lost in the kitchen with a recipe, some ingredients, the...

I recently responded to the Dear Harriette column in the Virginian-Pilot after seeing a letter from a pregnant mother who wrote in about...

For a long time after moving to Norfolk , I never felt like it was a good fit. I missed the cities I had lived in like Boston and Dallas...

I am not a gardener. I think I could have been but the garden has become my husband’s domain and I have backed away. It was never a...

It doesn’t take long for someone who has worked for over four decades at a high pressure, very precise profession to get bored when he or...

It is not often that one gets to rescue an Easter bunny especially if you are Jewish. But today, on Good Friday, I was part of a trio of...

For many folks, today is just a day where things are confused because we have only 23 hours to complete our tasks, but for me it is a day...