The year was 1964. The place was Chicago. A man I worked with had acquired a couple of all-leather, NFL regulation, 1963 Chicago Bears-inscribed footb...
My husband brought our three young children down the long hall of the maternity ward, pausing to let them wave in each doorway at the new mothers cudd...
My friend Peggy and I had both been to Paris before, but always as chaperones for youth groups or part of adult groups, seeing all the usual tourist s...
As the soot and dirt and ash rained down,We became one color.As we carried each other down the stairs of the burning buildingWe became one class.As we...
September 10, 2001, was our eighth wedding anniversary. My husband, Alan, was leaving the next day for a week back in California to try his last Clean...
When I was first incarcerated in 1987, the hardest part of doing prison time was being away from my children. This is common with most of the women in...
It is the last day of the school year and I stand empty-handed with no gift to give you.It isn't that I haven't tried to think of something th...
I started to shake with anticipation as I hung up the phone. Could it really be true that I would be playing a round of golf at the hallowed ground of...
Until I started playing golf, I thought that wine tasting had to be the most confusing thing I'd ever done. People with names like Higgins ramblin...
For twelve years, my church has participated in the Appalachia Service Project. One week each summer, volunteers travel to Kentucky, Tennessee, Virgin...