Diary of a Bad Housewife

This past weekend, we went up to Prescott again (maybe I should just move there). My husband wanted to check out their annual Ghost Walk. I ...

I drove my friend Angie to the airport today. I had been anticipating and preparing for her arrival for weeks and now here I was, saying goo...

Recently, a good friend confided to me that she was worried about her daughter. The young girl had started cutting herself and my friend was...

Well, summer is all but over and I feel like I got a nice bit of recreational reading done. I used to be a regular visitor at the Books Ar...

An anonymous person wrote in on my last blog and brought up FDR’s imprisonment of Japanese Americans at Manzanar during WWII . I’m not certa...

One of the things I miss most about Los Angeles is the many small ethnic communities that give that city a true cosmopolitan feel. Whether i...

I watched a show last night on the Discovery Channel called “ The Price of Security ,” a documentary hosted by Ted Koppel which was followed...

Last weekend my family and I made a little border run, heading South to Mexico. The border is only about 3 hours south of Phoenix, so we dro...

I’ve always had trouble sleeping. Although I get tired and am quick to doze off, staying asleep is another matter. Last year I was diagnosed...

Part of my personality is that when I find something I like doing, particularly something creative, I do my very best to learn as much as I ...