Author: Mary Kunkel

I am a planner-aheader. I’m much more comfortable if I have a firm idea of what I’m going to do and when I’m going to do it. My husband, on the other hand, is...

For as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to be a gypsy. The Spanish word for a gypsy woman is “gitana” and I know this because I looked it up for my language...

I’m pretty sure I talked about this phenomenon another time but I was re-impressed when the other day I saw it again. In the song, it’s “six geese a-laying” but the geese that I...

Last week, while I was sitting in the waiting room in a medical office, a man in a chair across the room from me solemnly told me it’s a proven fact that Meryl Streep...

Two years ago, we drove from our home in Washington State to visit my family in Wisconsin and on the way, stopped at the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning, Montana.  We’d been...

I attended Catholic elementary school and when I was in first or second grade, I remember that everybody in our class was given little books of Christmas seals to sell.  I’m pretty sure I...

Introvert, extrovert, Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, socialist, nerd, geek, odd, normal, northerner, southerner, easterner, westerner, hick, redneck, elitist, ignorant, educated, street-smart, brainiac, dunce, narcissist, empath, loser, freak, illegal, slut, ADD, ADHD, crazy, addict, gay,...

A couple of years ago, I saw Temple Grandin speak.  She’s known for having had a respected career as a professor of animal science at Colorado State University while at the same time, being...

A couple of weeks ago, the woman I call my “growing up neighbor” died at the age of 110. Irene was a strong, resilient woman with a substantial French Canadian heritage, originally hailing from...

Division is on my mind today. Not the long division that I struggled to learn in the fourth grade — a different kind of division, one that’s happening between the people in this country....