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Last week I wrote about improbable love, focusing on my friend Priscilla. She had just turned 16 when she and Frank ran away and got married. While I suppose any love-crazed teenager could run away an...

Every time I go to a wedding, I say a little prayer for the bridal couple. I pray that they may have a big share of “happily ever after.” It doesn’t always happen that way, no matter how many good int...

Did you ever have a song repeatedly going through your head even though there is no music? There is just a haunting melody that fills you. Nobody can hear it except you, but you hear it clearly as if ...

While I was working in the kitchen making soup, my husband came in. I’m not sure what he came for because he never got to tell me. Instead, he was complaining about the small kitchen. “There’s no room...

Once again this week I listened to someone regretting that he never had a chance to make up with his brother. They didn’t talk for years and before he had a chance to “make things right” his brother d...

One again this week I was surprised after talking with a woman I have long admired. She does so much for others and frankly, when I watch her in action, I am awed at how much she accomplished. It’s no...

I am not someone who is normally envious of anyone else. Instead, I am so grateful for what I do have. There is no room in my heart for envy. Yet, this week I absolutely did find myself envying someon...

“What should we do this week while you are here,” asked my daughter Andrea during the start of our family Christmas vacation in Maine. Andrea is a planner and is always on the go. She wanted to make s...

There were many years when I thought the start of every new year was a perfect time to reflect, reform and renew. I never liked the thought of rushing from one year to another without giving serious t...

What do you want for Christmas? Do you have a ready answer to that question? I’m having an impossible time coming up with an answer. With losing so much clothing, furniture and special decorations in ...