“This little light of mine…” That song I learned as a child came to mind the other day as I looked out my back window at the heavy rain. For three days it had been rainy and bone-chilling cold. I was reminded of my first winter in New Orleans. The […]

My neighbor and I stood in her driveway in the deep summer heat. She lives next door and has lived in the neighborhood longer than most. This was the first time she and I talked since my husband’s funeral a few months before. She kindly gave me her condolences and […]

“Daggone it,” I thought. Here I was on a lifetime adventure and the clouds blocked my view.  I was flying from Rome to Munich as my 2019 dream vacation ended and I was headed home to the United States. In anticipation of a bird’s eye view of the Alps I […]