LOOKING AT THE WORLD THROUGH JOAN’S EYES

Joan Smith Grey’s birthday provides the perfect time to acknowledge how deeply we all still miss her and how all of us in the ‘best friends’ club’ channel her vision to guide us – especially in tough times. Probably because of that rapidly approaching birthday, I feel particularly bereft of her wisdom and her great…

WTF?

Every English speaker knows this expression. (Except of course, Phil Dunphy, the character in Modern Family who thinks it means ‘Why the Face’). This acronym is the only polite version of the too often heard “F” word. Are you a polite curser, or do you join the millions of Americans now using the F word…

An Old Fashioned Independence Day…

Baking a red, white and blue flag pie. Raising the flag. Decorating picnic tables with Red, White and Blue napkins. This year our choices for celebrating the Fourth of July are limited. Many of our favorite community and government-sponsored events have been canceled. There will be no parades, concerts, craft fairs or seafood festivals. Social…