We pause, this Memorial Day, to honor the lives, sacrifices, and memories of the fallen men and women from our nation’s military. As we pay our tributes, this Monday, let us think of those we have lost, but also on the beauty they have protected. Life: Though Memorial Day is designed to decorate the graves […]

Three years ago my nephew and I solemnly stood in my mother-in-law’s kitchen just before departing for her funeral service. Looking out the window, we saw a bald eagle majestically flying across the sky in broad circles. As we called the rest of the family, the eagle tipped its grand wings towards us before flying […]

Tonight, my parents threw a party at their lake house for my youngest sister.  She recently accepted another position within the company that she works for and will be moving to Seattle in a few days. My husband, our three kids, two dogs, and me piled into our minivan and drove out to my parents’ […]

Hundreds of years ago, in the little German town of Nuernberg, the noble maiden Kunigunde feel in love with a goldsmith.  Though her noble father disapproved, she turned down wealthy suitor after wealthy suitor and begged her father to approve her marriage to her humble love.  The noble maiden’s father cast the goldsmith into a […]

It seems my mother has led a charmed life. Naturally blessed with beauty and brains, she grew up the only child of a prominent physician in a small town. For 55 years, she has been married to my father, a dentist who lived to pamper and provide for his family. Mom has many wonderful qualities […]