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When we spend focused, quality time with others, something quite miraculous can happen to us. We enter their world, not by choice, but...

I am sitting in our sunroom surrounded by sunshine and shadows commingling as morning edges toward noon. The sky is Monet-like: a shade...

Depression is a dark and cloudy cell. I almost called it a cage, but a cage lets the light in. The cell, if one is lucky (or unlucky)...

Many years ago, I joined a lively group of women with which I had a joyful history, and we decided to go tubing down the Platte River in...

We were excited to be going to Seattle to visit our family who lives out there. Suitcases were packed--the best I had ever organized...

As I sit and watch the rain fall on a drippy November day, the first Sunday in Advent, I continue to mourn a home without dogs. We have...

In early summer, I purchased some impatiens to plant around my perennials in my “kidney” garden. (It’s in the shape of a kidney!) I had a...

Have you ever noticed how autumn brings with it a new slant of light? It seems clearer, softer and more luminous than summer light....

Every morning this past spring, I would sit in our sunroom eating breakfast and hear the most beautiful birdsong, repetitious and sweet....

The forsythias were beautiful this year. Blossoms cascaded. New shoots appeared. The brilliant yellow flowers shone like gold against the...