Part 1 We went to the woods That day in late December, Unseasonably warm at 44 degrees To find fresh air and Walk a trai...

When my 101-year-old long-time friend Annabel died in late December 2016, she left me a stack of correspondence that spanned thir...

A quilt over one hundred years old hangs on our family room wall, pieced and quilted by a group of women who met weekly to sew at Cent...

Slivers of ice On the surface of the creek  - Thin geometric shapes Forming a puzzle, In chilly water on a Cold Winter Day...

Most evenings, I take a minute to pour something warm in a mug and sip it. It’s an ordinary activity and I never thought that it ...

I subscribe by email to a few blogs - Charity Singleton Craig , Ann Kroeker , Laura Boggess , and (in)courage are a few of my favorit...

Comfort - to soothe; console; relief in affliction Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer, last year's Pulitzer Prize winner...