Category : Main Course

Last summer, I took my retired teacher friends on a short getaway to the coast. One evening, we walked along a quiet beach just as...

When I retired from teaching, one of the best decisions I made was to join a small cooking club in my neighborhood. We meet several...

The old community center kitchen had seen better days – scratched countertops, mismatched baking sheets, and a fridge that groaned louder than the gym floorboards....

A couple of weeks ago, my granddaughter came home from school clutching a wrinkled piece of construction paper covered in marker hearts and stick figures....

Last fall, I spent a few quiet weeks helping my niece settle into her first apartment just outside Minneapolis. She’d landed her first teaching job—third...

Back in the summer of ‘84, I volunteered at a small community center on the edge of the Navajo Nation in Arizona. I had gone...