Confession: My Messy Little Secret…

… is I live in organized chaos, and I don’t even want to know the psychological or psychiatric reasons for those, like me, that are very neat, clean, and organized on the surface… But just below the facade resides very messy drawers, cabinets, closets.. They look, well, like this… As I remember, my parents were…

Leaping into 2008–With Moderation

  I remember with great warmth the gelid winters of my youth. Growing up in Colorado, I experienced the true seasonal meaning of winter, snow, and ice. Sometimes we had below freezing temperatures for days and days, accompanied with days of snow and huge snowdrifts peaking in our front and backyards–the very thing children long for in…