We felt our bright green lawns with our bare feet. Yards were cool and slippery with dew early in the morning and turned brittle in late summer…

The ceremony is a blur in my mind after 56 years, but I still see my beloved’s expression filled with love and tenderness. For the reception, the ladies…

Gliding across the winter ice was like floating. I loved the sound of skate blades cutting into the ice as they traced a tiny smooth channel. Each Christmas…

Another narrow escape came during a family vacation when Kim was in high school. Bunny was accidently left in a hotel room and was not discovered to be missing…

His blue shirt-sleeves were rolled up to the elbow. He seemed even closer to me, close enough that I could see long dirty fingers continuing to motion to me.

Later in life I thought that my father may have tried to kill me that day in the lake. In a crowded lake he could claim that my drowning was an accident…

And there it was, a silvery rainbow trout, scales seeming to glow from within, a pale pink “rainbow” flowing from head to tail. About seven inches long, a beauty.

This foray into the world of a mother bird changed my life. I became even more fascinated with nature, in birds, in animal behavior. This experience at age seven may have been one of the catalysts…

Flowers revived my spirit and helped heal my soul. Flowers helped restore my mind broken by ugly shouting words. Blossoms filled almost all my senses with their visual beauty…

During this reverie, suddenly a flock of chickadees appeared in the branches above. They flitted with quick acrobatics from one branch to the next, their tiny beaks pecking for insect grubs in the bark.