Rob Perez steps out his front door and, surprised, stops in his tracks. Rob finds himself facing a patch of Creeping Charlie, a kidney shaped leaf with scalloped edges. This herbaceous perennial is familiar to many with a yard. CREEPING CHARLIE: Hi! ROB PEREZ: Oh, I, um, thought we were meeting across the way. CC: Well, I saw you were […]

Fall is here. A birch is turning yellow. As will the wild sarsaparilla in the woods. The woods honeysuckle will turn early too. Summer is over. It’s time for us to get back to schooling. Months and months of play and loose reins make the pups errant. Autumn, from mid-September to the early part of winter, is a more serious […]

In recent weeks, brother columnist Rob Perez has defamed both golf and pickleball. He asserted that golf desecrated nature and that pickleball was a board game masking as exercise. His friend and North Shore neighbor, Greg Kachinsky, was so mad that he went out and played both games on the same day. So there, Rob! Now we discover that Rob […]

My parents are the most amazing couple that I know. They argue. They flirt. They love and appreciate one another. Recently my dad suffered a brain bleed. He cannot use his left side at this time. A strong man, working to build a home just two days before this happened, we did not see this coming. Yet they hold each […]

I’ve been thinking (for a change). I’m usually so busy that I don’t bother, but something my brother Dave asked me in Australia has put my Thinker in gear. He asked if I’d made plans for the end of my life. What? End of life? I hadn’t really considered it. I have a health directive, and my husband Jerry and […]