This is off topic (a bit). As I’ve mentioned, however, it’s been freezing frickin cold here so far this winter. We’ve had night after night after night of

I had a good long cry on Sunday when I read in TIME magazine about the death of the famous parrot Alex who wowed researchers for so many

Over the weekend, we babysat a parrot. Despite early success at befriending him, it turns out the bird hates me. It sounds silly, I know, but it really

Twenty years ago today, I went on a blind date that changed my life. I’d been summarily dumped by a young man with whom I’d had a long-distance,

I come from a family of firefighters. It’s a pretty common profession for Italian-Americans here in Colorado. So, when my husband Tom became a firefighter too, it’s not

I often write about our training struggles, which truth be told feel like big, fat failures . So, today, I’m going to brag just a bit on myself.

  Devastating grief compels me to go completely off topic today. I’m sad to report the suicide of a long-time friend. She was a brilliant, funny, most excellent