My daughter is pregnant and due any day! Yay! Total excitement complete with a mother’s jitters. But add to the mix the news that my daughter’s husband has been offered a new job…but his…

As we launch into the Christmas Season bursting with Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, we often hear words like “Remember the Reason for the Season.” A few weeks ago, my daughter, Laura, as she said,…

“A moment in my mind, A smile remembered. A smell so sweet, Something that once was. I can almost touch you, In these memories that linger, Captured in a snapshot, A moment in time.”…

There is an episode of “Friends” (The One Where Phoebe Hates PBS, Season 5, Episode 4) where Phoebe and Joey have a bet—that Phoebe cannot do one thing that somehow, in some way, does…

Do you like filet mignon? I know I surely do. My husband, Jerry, does, too, but when it comes to it, he seriously likes meat. To him, it really doesn’t matter—rib eye, T-bone, sirloin,…

Every morning we walk. Each of us get out of our beds (I wish I could say, no matter the weather) and grabbing coats and hats, and sometimes even gloves—one of us even has…

What??!! Why in the world title a blog “Dash of Strange?” That’s because I have a little bit of strange in me, as we truly all do—we all have our stories. Some, rich in…

Have you ever noticed what a negative prefix “dis” is? Any word, especially anything that could be remotely positive, immediately sinks, deep into the depths, 20,000 leagues under the sea into the darkest hole…when…

Have you ever jumped to a conclusion? In the great children’s book, The Phantom Tollbooth, Milo and friends find they have done just that—but not only have they jumped to conclusions, but literally they…