Missing My Sister Esther
“You’re coming up to a small town that has an historical marker,” Esther texted to me as Marv and I …
Category Archives: travel
Q is for Quaker
Did you play the alphabet game on car trips as a child? I vividly remember someone shouting START and then …
N is for Normal
An entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April Challenge I wince when I think of normal, especially …
K is for Karaoke
An entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April Challenge: As a member of a Writing Circle at …
Tears of Thanksgiving
They started in my church parking lot. When I turned in, off of 26th Street, an older masked man motioned …
Grief at Twenty-one Months: A Fun Memory from a Long Marriage
For the past few weeks, I’ve been sorting, thinning, and throwing away files. Dozens of them. And reminiscing. Yesterday, among …
A Ordinary Kitchen Story During Extraordinary Times
It’s four o’ clock on a Wednesday morning here in beautiful South Dakota and I am still awake. Doesn’t that …
“A NEW FRIEND”
On my recent trip to New Zealand, I was able to meet Judith Baxter, a long-time blogging friend. The ability …
Gratitude Party on Turning Seventy-Eight
When I turned 72, I used this same “gratitude” blog title. Musing over the past year and a half since …
Buses, Pickpockets, and Crowbars
My trip from the Iowa Summer Writing Festival in Iowa City coasted along from the Iowa hotel, to the airport …
Write Along with Me 