One of my favorite places to be is in my old Adirondack Chair (You can read all about the Adirondack on the web site) on the front porch on a summer evening. I love to read there or visit with the children or just watch them play on the lawn. It is usually cool there and I am surrounded by fragrant flowers bursting with color.

“You need to get more exercise,” they said. But when you weigh as much as I did that’s not as easy as it sounds. And on a perfectly innocent-looking day a few years ago it landed me in trouble.

Every time we pass the Meijer Department Store on 28th Street in Grand Rapids I say; “That’s where I got my first ball glove.” And the family groans. Sometimes I don’t think they appreciate tradition like I do.