

Royal Wedding
I couldn’t help but feel a little nostalgic as I tuned into the coverage of the latest Royal Wedding. My thoughts reminisced back to watching Charles & Diana’s nuptials over thirty years ago. The carriage, the castle, and thousands of well-wishers who lined the streets of London all together waved a magic wand and cast a fairy- dusted love spell upon my nine-year-old imagination. I became swept up in the grandiose drama of it all and was mesmerized into believing fairy tal


The Importance of a Smellfie
There were eight of us seated around the table at the fancy banquet. As we passed the water pitcher and placed the linen napkins politely on our laps, my husband leaned over and whispered in my ear, “What smells?” Without saying a word, I casually turned my head and gave him “the look” – if you’ve been married for any length of time, you know what I’m talking about. We all have “a look” that communicates when words fall short. My look that evening pleaded, “I don’t know,