“How does the camel cross the desert?” I posed this question to my children until they were sick of it. “One step at a time,” they’d...

Previously on Ma’s Journals: Play selected scenes from Parts 1 and 2, including a Catholic Church, a Yogi from heaven, feral children at...

In Part 1, we explored a few of the benchmarks in a lifelong search for the meaning of…well…life. We visited a Catholic Church, witnessed...

By now most of you know I’ve been on a lifelong search for spiritual meaning and have ended up at this ripe age pretty much exactly where...

You are probably assuming from the title of this tale that I’m referring to the red laser light toys that drive cats crazy. No, I’m...

When my children were growing up, I told them I had a lot of cousins. I didn’t know their names or where they lived but I knew, what with...

It just so happened that two things coincided with Christmas Season during my 13th year of life in this incarnation: my best friend was...

Did any of you grow up believing you accidentally showed up on the wrong planet? As a child, I was too young to grasp the idea of...

My father taught me this silly little ditty when I was old enough to memorize it. He would ask and I would answer: “Where’s your money?”...

It was during the SRF years, when our children were pre-schoolers and our intentions were honorable. I’m not naming names here, but my...

On my sister’s side I have one nephew, her son. That’s it. That’s the totality of male lineage for her and her husband and all his kin,...

Customs is an interesting word. In the singular form—custom—it could mean a traditional way of doing things or, if you’re shopping in...

Fear of flying was an acquired taste. It started on a business trip to Las Vegas when I missed my flight and didn’t know that getting on...

A box of spaghetti walks up to a space princess … and twenty years later I’m helping them move their stemware from one dwelling to...

I was going to title this "Wherever I Go, There I Am," but that’s already been copyrighted. My generation has been repeating it ever...

Museums are important places everyone should visit, right? If you Google "What are Museums?" you’ll get this quote: “Museums are...

Don’t you get tired of seeing those Facebook posts that list all the things old folks had to do by themselves instead of the sissy ways...

There’s an old story about how family recipes get handed down from generation to generation. When a newly-married woman asked her...

Picture this: new husband and wife with two young children need to buy a house in nineteen days or pay capital gains tax. No pressure,...

Clothing is complicated. We ask too much of it. Life was much simpler when we took a length of fabric, draped it across our bodies and...