November 13, 2017 Sports writers seem to have a tough time coming up with metaphors for female athletes. The "Ava Bell" mentioned in this...

October 16, 2017 The revelation about Harvey Weinstein begs the question of why it took so many years for women to come forward to say he...

October 15, 2017 My pen name is Pat Dunlap Evans, but my official middle name is Kennedy, which was my mother's birth name. She's gone...

October 8, 2017 Our TV-watching dog Meryl Streep, named after the famed actress, was thrilled that the action-detective show "Hawaii...

October 7, 2017 My degrees are in English, but my academic focus was “creative writing and journalism.” After grad school, I got a job in...

August 28, 2017 My husband and I drove to Kansas City for the Great American Solar Eclipse, thinking we would view it in St. Joseph, MO,...

August 14, 2017 My brother in law is mad at me because I didn't have time to make his favorite cake for a family birthday party Sunday...

July 28, 2017 Since my last post, I've been to the Big Island of Hawaii and safely back. We took my three granddaughters on a "bucket...

July 3, 2017 July 4 is a holiday that begs for baked beans, but I dislike the mealy canned versions, doctored with too much brown sugar,...

June 24, 2017 At my age, one doesn’t consider the act of leaping. It’s just not something I do. But I found myself in need of a leap this...

June 14, 2017 Here I am, a grandmother, and I got in a bar fight on Monday. Not fisticuffs, mind you, but a shouting match with a young...

June 4, 2017 I just saw an absolutely silly post on Facebook, a video showing a dachshund getting a massage. Seriously. Wiener dog...

May 25, 2017 Three times now, I've had my fingerprints taken to submit to the FBI. This is related to a Texas concealed handgun license...

May 10, 2017 I live in a small community that has a "social set" of sorts. The entire bunch reminds me of the citizenry of River City,...

April 19, 2017 Admittedly, my politics swing a wee bit left of center, but that was not why I absolutely abhorred Bill O'Reilly. I've...

March 22, 2017 My oldest granddaughter texted me yesterday to tell me that she was reading To Leave a Memory and LIKED IT. What an...

March 7, 2017 As a trained journalist from the old school, I am appalled at what is going on in today's news world. We have a media...