Tuesday, May 24th, 2022
“We’re you able to visit your mother over Mother’s Day weekend?” I asked Andre. “Not on Mother’s Day,” he answered. “I called her Friday and left a message. She hasn’t called me back yet. I’m sure she’s...
Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
“You’ve been through hell, but you can be anyone you want to be here,” Rex Reeve said to my much younger self in a new state and city. That was many years ago, but now a bridge...
Tuesday, May 10th, 2022
It was a small thing and it started with a short text message. “Are you in town?” Barry Smith asked. “Yes,” I responded. “Oh, good!” he said. “I’m out of town and I was wondering if you...
Wednesday, May 4th, 2022
The front door lock was stiff. It hadn’t been used for almost a year. I jiggled the key in an effort to get it to release. Just as I was about to give it up there was...
Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
I’ve heard it said that the most important meal of the day is breakfast, but I guess I’ve never really believed it. Until now. The reason I believe it now has nothing to do with how good...
Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
“I love to be on the water,” Margo Huddleston said to me as we looked out of the large south facing windows of her living room out across a shimmering lake and on to the Oquirrh Mountains. Below...
Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
“My choice was the culmination of many years of pain,” Ryan Schwab said with his characteristic steely gaze. Sometimes it’s hard to know where internal determination comes from. Up to this moment, all I knew was that...
Tuesday, April 5th, 2022
It had been a great while since I’d seen my neighbor Sarah. I knew she and her husband Chris were focusing their time, caring for one of their children in particular. But, that’s about all I knew....
Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
“Have you talked with Jay recently?” Cad asked. “I talked with him just a week, or so ago,” I replied. “Then you know he’s losing his vision?” Cad followed. “No!,” I said in a tone of disbelief....
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
“Kristin was invited to speak at a conference for women in Bermejillo, Durango, Mexico,” Loraine Clark said. Bermejillo isn’t an easy place to get to. There are no large international airports and one has to drive a...