. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inside Stories by Sarah Madelin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

I love receiving emails from subscribers! It always makes me happy to hear from you all and learn more about you. Carrie Lowrance emailed me after I posted about my...

First things first, thank you so much for the kind messages you sent about my little Coco cat (who is impersonating our household hero Elton John in this photo). I am thrilled...

Can I tell you a story about this sprightly black cat? I found her running across four lanes of Chicago traffic one cold November night twelve years ago. She was seven...

Happy 2023, friends! Hope your holidays were great and you're enjoying the clean buzz of energy that comes with every brand new year. I love the way life feels fresh...

Here in Colorado, snow is falling outside my window. My little ones are tucked in and dreaming of sugar plums...well, sugar cookies, more likely. I'm writing by the light of the Christmas...

I've learned a lot about shifting gears in the past two weeks. We were all packed up and ready to hit the road for my parents' house when snow and...

Hello, hello! Over here at my house, we're in the throes of packing up for a week at my parents' home in southern Illinois. It's a two-day drive from here in Colorado...

Leslie Jordan. What did we do to deserve his sprightly kindness and infectious joy? When I heard he passed away unexpectedly last week, it really stung, especially considering he was a...

Thanks to everyone who voted on my new pink iMac's name! It was fun to see the answers roll in. Although it was a very close race between Poppy and...

Welcome to my office! I am lucky to have a space in our basement that's all my own. Although it's half-underground, it has a great big window, so it's full of...

I don't pretend to know much about the British Monarchy, but I've always found Queen Elizabeth II to be such an interesting person. I had a funny story planned to share...

I am super excited to be writing you on the iMac computer I got today. My faithful old laptop is nearing the end of its days after many years of service....