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Dear Trustees of Smith College: When I was a little girl, every morning, while I brushed my teeth, I looked out our bathroom window int...

At first the huntsman thought I'd blown an aneurysm. That's what he said, afterwards. He said, "You went down without a sound....

Yesterday, Mack, the guy who mows my farm and repairs fence and cleans out the patch of pines  will die before he gets to the pines, becaus...

One of the things I love about my Catholic church is that we celebrate Advent before Christmas. So many of the other churches around here a...

I was enormously thankful yesterday that my cleaning people came that day instead of their usual Monday, because they always vacuum the bas...

So what happened was I ran headlong into another novel deadline. It was my eighth draft of The War I Finally Won (publication date October ...

The wildfires are better now, though not entirely gone. Yesterday's local Air Quality Rating, mid-afternoon, was 18, and I celebrated b...