Swan Mom

Most people who know me know that I like used things. I buy used furniture, used pots and pans, and used clothing. There are a number of se...

When Wes and I got married, my maternal grandmother gave us her old microwave oven. It was a small black cube from the early eighties, not...

I saw it on a thrift-store shelf – a straight-sided glass vase with a white candle inside it. Nothing remarkable about the vase itself, r...

I have a friend named Stacie. She is a little younger than me — not quite forty —  and she has lived in her home with her parents her entire...

You have probably heard these songs a time or two. ( From  The Lady in Red) The lady in red is dancing with me cheek to cheek The...

Eight years ago, a local grocery store held a Mother's Day essay contest. I wrote a short essay and entered it in the contest. I'm...

On March 17, 1842, the Relief Society – a women's organization that is an auxiliary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ...