Water color by Micah Halverson It was barely light when I peeked outside that morning. The aroma of fresh bread and hot chocolate warmed my...

I found the letters the week I had the Hong Kong flu. I was 18. I came home from college a week before Christmas vacation started, and col...

Me in Salzburg, 1969 Walking and talking—that's how we fell in love. After our Sunday talk we were together every day. Dee took his c...

I can still picture it. Monday morning I saw Dee at breakfast. He was already sitting with some others so I said "Hi" in that awk...

I had the dream again. It's the dream where I've lost my baby and I'm searching between all the cars in the parking lot trying ...

Austria 2008 ♫ Oh you can't go to Heaven on roller skates, you'll roll right past those pearly gates...♫ Heaven sounded fun then whe...

I am an organizer. I spend days and weeks organizing things in order to save seconds and minutes. Someday it might equal out and I'll ...

On our kid's birthdays we have a tradition of "The Birth Story." After the candles and cake, everyone listens while I recount...

I love downtown nights. When we lived in the suburbs our dog barked during the night, and raccoons played in the bushes and garbage cans. ...

Carl Larsson I'll never forget That Tuesday. I sat at the table in our "apt" studying the biography of Martin Luther "auf...

A Brave Start HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU'RE IN LOVE? After our talk That Tuesday , I started to think about it. What were the important things...

So it was time to dump the boyfriend. This was embarrassing, because in my pre- true love days (just two weeks before) I had assured him I ...

I've been sick for about a week, and I've learned a few things. 1. Looking natural should cease to be a goal. 2. Laying in bed doe...

Where would you be right now, if you could be anywhere? I would be sitting at a sidewalk cafe in Paris with a blue umbrella over my table. ...

Artwork by Polly It was for real now. On a glorious Saturday in April Dee and I hiked up to the Cafe Winkler overlooking all of Salzburg, a...