Rebecca J. Carlson

I got a nice birthday present from my garden this year---a big, fat, round, turnip! I've never grown one this pretty in all my life. I...

In getting ready for a possible move this summer, I'm painting and repairing my house, doing things I've meant to do for years but n...

The soundboard is one of the most important, and definitely the most expensive, part of the harp.  Every moment, the strings threaten to ri...

I pulled out my debit card to pay the dishwasher repair man. "I was just thinking about how unreal money is these days. I never see it....

Today at my monthly writer's group luncheon I was telling the story of my next novel to one of my writing buddies. Just as I was getting...

SPOILER WARNING - please go see the movie before you read this list! Hiccup is a better actor than Mark Hamill. Gobber is missing two limb...

I was right. This is the movie I have been waiting to see all my life. Hiccup ought to get an Oscar nomination for best actor. The emoti...