It happened after supper. I was standing on our small front patio and watering the strawberry bed on one side. Behind me were flowers and a sm…

I got a hug from a stranger in Walmart today. It sounds weird and well, it kind of was. Let me back up a little to explain. I like to make jew…

I am an orphan now, and even at my age, as the mother of three children and grandmother to six, it feels strange – and sad. My mother was 99 y…

As the Fourth of July approaches, I find I am reflecting on previous Independence Day holidays. These memories seem to fall into three categor…

It has been a very random week, so this “diary” entry will be very random, too.

We have a lot of batteries at our house, just not the ones we need. Batteries are the bane of my existence at times. I don’t want an electric …

The sun pulls hard when it is finally spring. There is an energy about it that makes me think that I can do all those outside jobs I was glad …

It was the middle of the night, and we were barreling down Interstate 29 south of Sioux Falls, S.D., trying to beat a weather system on our wa…

At five o’clock, around the world, there is an uneasiness and darkness that shadows the earth. It is the bewitching hour that begs the questio…