By Elizabeth Prata In the 1990s I traveled a lot. On one trip, in 1994, my husband and I took a cross-country trip in our 1982 VW Westp...

By Elizabeth Prata I think birdhouses are neat. There are/were a lot of them in my yard. Most were here 14 years ago when I arrived as...

By Elizabeth Prata My goal for the spring was to obtain some new succulents. I like how they look, and I like how it takes a lot to kill t...

By Elizabeth Prata It's a slow start to the holiday and I'm just fine with that. Breakfast was a veggie hash, code for 'I gott...

By Elizabeth Prata The school year is ended. Yesterday we would have sung goodbye to the children when they boarded the buses to roll out ...

By Elizabeth Prata Good morning! It's late May and we are coming into the home stretch of school. The Governor suspended at-school lea...

By Elizabeth Prata The title of this essay is a take-off of the title of Nobel winning novelist's book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, ...

By Elizabeth Prata I finally got my hair cut! My last appointment was the day before the national emergency was declared. It had been 7 we...