An IPPY Award and a Promise Kept
“I probably won’t go to the award ceremony,” I said to my brother Jim when I…
When Tears Tell the Truth
We met at the beginning of my senior year in 1966. I was a government…
Bloom Where You Are Planted
My husband Vic died in early June 2008. Even though my heart ached, I was…
Mother-Daughter Healing: An Alzheimer’s Story
Hill Haven Skilled Nursing, 1999 My healthy sun-browned body lies in a hospital bed with railings. My pale…
A Message from the Moon: Synchronicity as Inner Guide
I’m in a small country church. Someone turns off the electric lights. The full moon…
Snapshots: Photographs to Heal the Heart
Vic got serious about photography in 1990 after a borrowed camera malfunctioned and there were no…
The Abandoned Table: Changing Places after a Death in the Family
We ate dinner at the antique oak table. Vic's stepfather had given it to us when we…
Learning to Forgive
Where is my Victor?” my mother-in-law asks. “He died, Virginia,” I tell her quietly. Her…
Dizzy, Deaf, and Determined
“I have to lie down right now,” I tell my daughter-in-law Liz as I stretch out…
Please Leave Love Notes When You Die
A small group sat around a table in the Watkins Glen Public Library. They’d come to…