Marcia Moston The interest in any story, yours included, is not so much what you did, but what you made of it —what you learned, how yo...

Marcia Moston If you shake your family tree, you may be surprised at the nuts that fall out. People—both present and past—in your life...

Marcia Moston Anyone who has moved, downsized, or tackled a vigorous spring-cleaning is well aware of how much stuff mysteriously makes...

Photo credit   Mini Memoir Moment #1: The Story-Generating Power of Lists I know. Alliteration is for soup-selling jingles, ...

Marcia Moston A quick, simple stop at the nursery for a couple of knock out rose bushes turned into a month’s worth of worry and wo...

According to a survey in the Daily Mail , selling a house is one of most stressful experiences people go through, topping death and div...

Nat with shed stuff Marcia Moston I used to say the property we bought was “on the tracks”—the lake homes to the right of us were m...

Marcia Moston After we spent several thousand more than anticipated in clearing our newly purchased land, we discovered the old mobile h...

Marcia Moston The thing about my childhood home was that even though it was small—with every closet and cupboard packed—to a child the...

My intention when I walked into Pier 1 that day was to pick up the chairs I’d ordered. It was the picture of the bird with a beak full ...

I was hoping to find what the Bible refers to as “hidden treasures of darkness. ” The property we bought included a run-down mobile home an...