I admire most the unlikely flowers, those dropped from an apathetic wind and pushing up tall and strong from unfriendly soil. I wonder, sometimes, how that feels, having been more of a potted plant myself. Is there time for a wild seed to ponder its place in the fickle universe or are its days filled [...]
After a long and challenging day, I reached into our book closet, pulled out a somewhat random choice and started reading to a young friend of mine. We were a little mad at each other at the time, and I only saw the top of his head poking out from his bed covers and surrounding [...]
I have always marveled at the power of flight to transport us from one place to another. Saturday morning, I stood on the tarmac at Wittman Field and understood its power to transform us as well. I brought two young men with me to participate in the Experimental Aircraft Association’s Young Eagle program, which offers [...]
We ran out of beds, oven space, printer ink, ice, apple juice and time. I wrapped my last present Christmas morning, and finished my holiday baking two hours later. My love light batteries died. I forgot to buy the evaporated milk for the pumpkin pie. I broke a glass on the kitchen floor and had [...]
In Halloween's wake I am digesting tiny Twix candy bars, tidying a kitchen sticky with guts from a hastily carved pumpkin and feeling grateful for life's sweetest moments. A steady wave of Trick or Treaters made their way to our door Wednesday night and they were all -- unicorns, dinosaurs, super heroes and villains -- [...]
