reilly's end of the day stories

If you're interested in following me over to my new website, try logging in a different way! Please go to preillyh.com, and it should ta...

Hi! It turns out that after July 22, 2024, all of my stories are going to be deleted from this website!! Please follow me over to a differen...

My Dear Readers, Over the past 12-plus years, I've written 81 stories for you on this site. You may keep reading them until July 22nd, ...

In March of 2023, we left Palm Springs for the Bay Area to try to organize the refurbishing of our old home in Richmond, California. I...

Recently, my husband Doug and I flew from California to JFK on Delta Airlines red-eye flight. Our schedule was cutting things pretty close. ...

Ever since our favorite priest, Father Oliver retired, from a church near to us in Nevada, we've followed him around like puppies, sinc...

 It's been quite a while since I've written about what's going on in our lives. All the while that I haven't been writing, w...

This year we decided to stay in Southern California, for Christmas, in our trailer/cottage in Palm Springs. There were lots of factors in ma...

Probably most people who are in the habit of attempting the game, Wordle, once a day, just use their phones. I've found that I can't...

Whenever we tell folks that when we camp, we sleep in our Prius, they say, "What? But you're so tall! How could you do it?" We...

 It was a busy day at Lowe's garden department. The employees complained that too many plants had been delivered, and it was hard to kee...

 Thanksgiving went very smoothly in Palm Springs. Most of Doug's family came down from the Bay Area, and we all mingled very happily tog...