I joked with my mom that the thief must have been disappointed that I invested in shoes, not jewelry. To me, the shiny red boxes of sexy Charles Jourdan pumps overhead in my closet were jewels.

As the two women entered the restaurant, Jessie was thinking how surprised she was that her friend had suggested pizza for lunch.

She will chop off the part about the shot glass coming from ABC.

Why is Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris the most visited cemetery in the world?

The lemon tree at the acupuncture studio up the block is covered in blossoms and bees. Always that smell delights me and reminds me of Phoenix and my two favorite days of the year there.

Did you know that American quilters are bitterly divided on the hot-button topic of vintage handkerchiefs? Me neither, until I went sleuthing on Pinterest last week for ideas on how to use the things.

Margaret Thomas had yet to find her people at Imperial Republic. It was highly doubtful she would locate any tonight. Yet here she stood, at a Cinco de Mayo Fiesta, advertised on a photocopied flier, shoved under her door the previous day.

Doris Rosen was excited to see her twin grandchildren. Michael was in his first year of law school at Georgetown. Amelia was in L.A., studying to become a physical therapist in a city where she could use her Spanish.

If you ask me, the Imperial Republic is a weird name for a “retirement community.” Imperial Manor, maybe. Or Shuffleboard Republic, even better.

“I feel like some convicted felon stuck in this little room with a legion of documents to kill,” muttered Jason to the lawyer seated next to him. “We’ve been here all morning.”

Holiday dinners with my husband, Jude’s, family are often tricky, but this Thanksgiving bore true promise for the kind of skirmish that makes my husband effervescent with delight

“Are you practicing your telekinetic powers over there, Madame Electee?”

“What are you talking about?” Julie asked, shutting her laptop when her husband walked past the dining room table into the kitchen.

Everyone’s got one, right? That’s what Julie was thinking as she waited for hers to arrive. A friend you’ve known forever who makes you wish you had a watermelon in your tote so you could break it over her head?

Two quilters attend Road to California 2024 in Ontario, California. Two uniformed policemen are present at the scene.

“ Empty yogurt containers,” Aunt Janice muttered in disgust to no one as she opened one of my mother’s upper kitchen cabinets looking for some sort of serving dish.

Southwest Flight Number 511 from Chicago hit the runway at Dallas Love Field right on time. Within 30 minutes, the two sisters were hugging each other and exchanging enthusiastic and genuine “You look greats!”

You might say Canyon, Texas was inland , if you consider 720 miles from the nearest ocean to be inland. About 20 miles south of Amarillo, Canyon sits in the eastern part of the Staked Plains llano, once a swampy forest where dinosaurs roamed free.

Are they really resuscitating mauve? How long has this been going on? When you’re in your sixties and retired with no hipster kids to keep you on trend, a mauve invasion can take you unawares.

“What’re you laughing about, Em?”

“Oh, just a study I was reading about ADHD for a school paper.”

Washington D.C.’s cherry blossoms had peaked a week earlier and Weather.com predicted wind and rain for the following evening.