Dedicated to The Senior Class of 2020 In my little corner of the earth, it will always be a Friday, March the 13th of the year 2020, that will be one to remember for all times. With a mysterious virus ...

Even after all of these years, I remember the day like it was yesterday.  The snowy, bitter cold Wisconsin March afternoon when I arrived home from college for a visit with my mom. My dad was in sunny ...

The secretary looked forward to her Easter weekend with family as she cleared her desk on what is known to Christians around the world as Maundy Thursday, the Thursday before Easter Sunday. There amid ...

In an effort to find a little quiet space, I parked myself on a cushy sofa of the elegant hotel lobby where I claimed a corner of the world for myself. Albeit for just a few moments, I sipped my coffe ...

I first became acquainted with Carol Kohankie about a year ago when she and I met through Facebook and then in person over coffee at Epic Gelato where we discussed Flower Mound history, hair care and ...

Along a ridge in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery of Concord, MA are a cluster of three graves. A sign with an arrow points to nearby burial site of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Tourists trek from all over the world to ...

How many times have you purchased a lottery ticket?  For some people it’s a regular thing, others may never have considered buying one.  My husband and I often give one another lottery tickets as gift ...

This past Christmas, as in Christmases past, I baked a lot of cookies. I start early in December and freeze the treats to be given to others so they know they are remembered. The house is filled with ...

“How can I help?” asks Madlin, a friend of mine, a very busy mom of two, God love her she’s always 10 minutes late to everything because she, like so many other moms I know, is over scheduled. “Madlin ...

Your days of mourning will come to an end, the smallest family will become a thousand…at the right time, I, the Lord, will make it happen. - Isaiah, Chapter 60, New Living Translation Jeanette Witheri ...

Here we are, once again, heading into the season of opportunity! Every year as we wind down the old and ring in the new, we get to decide how we’re going to finish it out. This year I get to spend the ...

It was just a few short years ago as I sat on the white sands of the Gulf of Mexico and watched four fledgling humans flap around in the emerald water as I shouted the words that became an inside joke ...

Well, this is embarrassing. One year during the thick of the holiday season I was tangled up in decorating tree after tree for friends like it was some sort of candy crack addiction. It was during thi ...

A tough thing happened for my kids recently. One of my son’s teachers from last year, someone he admired and learned a lot from, was arrested during the school day for sexual misconduct that had taken ...

There are those moments in life that alter someone’s forever, though they gently ease onto the scene without effort or invitation. These sort of moments can make their introduction as either negative ...

I grew up in the suburbs of the Midwest back in the eighties. My parents sent us to private, Catholic school, my brothers and I had part-time jobs by the time we had our driver’s license, and I felt b ...

“But everyone else gets to sleepover at Mara’s house, why can’t I? I hate that you don’t trust me, you want to ruin my life as I start high school!”  BAM! The door slams and you are left standing in t ...

A recent Facebook story became a viral sensation when a young bride named Tara Foley secretly flew to her dying grandmother with an unaltered wedding dress in tow. In on the scheme was Red Door Photog ...

…People are always asking me ‘What do you want people to say about you a hundred years from now?’…I want them to say, ‘Dang, don’t she still look good for her age’?’ ”—Dolly Parton One of the casualti ...