Nancy Runner

I must have had too much caffeine. One day I felt industrious and decided to wash the mattress pad and bedspread. I trundled the two...

“Hola, mucho gusto,” I said to the young man in front of me. “Hello, glad to meet you,” it meant in English. I was a volunteer tax...

Did you ever have moments in your family when there is an unbearable tension, and you wish you could think of something to do or say to...

I’ve been thinking about mobs. Remember those ghastly scenes in reruns of the old Gunsmoke television show, where crowds of angry men...

Perhaps you have seen the new bestseller by Anderson Cooper, co-written with his 91-year-old mother, Gloria Vanderbilt. On the cover,...

I never imagined I would have my first kayaking experience at age 70! Living in Wisconsin means Friday night fish fries, rooting for the...

“Is it polio?” my mother asked, her voice quavering. Doctors made home visits in the 1940’s, and the Dr. continued to listen to my...

Why do we save certain objects, but not others? Over our short lifetime, we thin out and discard oodles of items, but there are those...

We weren’t a church-going family in the 1950’s, when we lived in a suburb of Chicago. However, the summer I was nine years old my mother...

It's almost Valentine's Day, which reminded me of chocolate, flowers, and lingerie. From there, my mind went to a job I once had, selling...