What is it with mirrors? When you pass one, do you catch yourself stopping to take a peek – make sure you look okay? The mirror in my...

How would you feel if someone told you you were a twin, but that your twin didn’t survive? Would you be surprised or shocked? Very likely...

My father died in a car crash March 8, 1966, at the age of 32, leaving a wife and 10 children behind. He had been driving at night and,...

This paragraph is my false start. There’s a little plaque on our wall that says, “God put me here to accomplish certain things – right...

Do you strive to accomplish New Year’s resolutions? Or have you given up the battle? The thing is, if we can’t manage these goals ANY...

What’s “all about the lights”? If you asked my husband, he would say, “Don’t follow the lights.” A direct quote from Gollum – or Tolkien,...

My six-month-old grandson is jumping in his Johnny Jump-Up next to me as I type. I look up and smile and talk to him now and then to let...

The main reason for flying for me has been to visit family. While I am proud of my children going out into the world and making a place...

“To ride on the wings of air…” [A King for the Castle – by Colleen Ferguson] Is there a Superhero on the loose or just an adventurous...

When I think of childhood Thanksgivings, there are two memories that tend to jump up at me. The first one was a play one of us wrote – or...

A house and yard that engendered imaginations and bred fantasy worlds and characters, encouraged artists' minds with beauty and light and...

A number of my growing up years were lived in a house and surrounding yard that showed me the magic of lives that had been and so could...

If someone asks you if you know what something is (i.e. a strange noise or music coming from outside) and you have no idea what it is,...

What kind of tree cannot be broken, chopped, sawed, burned or destroyed by anything mankind tries to throw at it? It’s a tree that people...

Rainbows on kittens and bright knitted mittens…what? Do you ever mix up your lyrics? You start humming a song and break out in verse, but...

During the years my husband and I raised our children, we joined the community band for a few years. It was our time to be people instead...

One of my daughters, after she moved out of Michigan, said the one thing she missed most was autumn and the beauty of the turning of the...

Do you remember the first drawing you did that put a thrill in your heart? Or maybe it was the first story you remember writing (mine was...

I'm sitting on our patio with my computer on my lap for the umpteenth time this summer, feeling grateful that I have such a wonderful...