We have a very, very strict rule in the Ruffing household: No cats on the dining room table.…
I was eight or nine. The fresh green aroma of hay filled the barn as I stood peering…
Cats have many questions. Perhaps that’s why they’re such wonderful companions. Curiosity doesn’t kill anything but boredom. Thankfully,…
At Marland Heights Elementary School in Weirton, West Virginia, Valentine’s Day appeared as a counterpoint to the gloom…
Our car’s highbeams cut through the darkness of Maryland’s rural Route 50, heading westbound toward home. It was…
That Christmas season, Christmas 2002, our tree was absolutely perfect. A white spruce with lush, green needles, and…
They call me the boss. Cake Boss, that is. Maybe you’ve seen my show of the same name…
Robin Roberts’ mother, Lucimarian Tolliver Roberts, passed away not long after this story appeared in the August 2012…
On May 10, 1959, Dorothy Collins Rowell—Mayflower descendant, divorced mother, schizophrenic—went into labor. She staggered out of her…
My husband, Michael, and I squeezed into our seats in the sanctuary at St. Rita’s School, just before…
Practical me. I sat at my kitchen table with the want ads: Live-in assistant horse trainer wanted. The…
