I stared in astonishment at the photograph my elderly aunt had recently placed in my hands. The young woman looking back at me could not have been more than eighteen. Her gaze was steady, her posture confident, her expression quietly self-assured. Even more startling was the unmistakable resemblance I saw in some of her features […]
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A few days after living through a brief season with almost no margin in my life, and just before I was to pick up my four-year-old granddaughter for a morning at the park, I backed my beautiful Toyota 4Runner straight into the trailer hitch of a parked truck. Hard. I was in a hurry. I
Sedona, Arizona There was no way I could have known it when I took this photograph. That morning I had been wandering the winding streets of Jerome, Arizona, exploring the remnants of the old copper mining town. Then I looked across the Verde Valley and saw them for the first time. Far in the distance,
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The older I grow, the more grateful I become to live in a place that embraces all four seasons with equal conviction. Summer arrives full of confidence. It beckons us outdoors to linger a little longer beneath wide blue skies, to gather tomatoes still warm from the vine, to breathe deeply of basil and sun-warmed
At the last moment, Keith and I slipped away to Florida’s Emerald Coast for a few days of rest and renewal. We spent our days beneath a generous sun, swam in the salt water, and let the warm, white sand work its quiet therapy beneath our feet. We read, talked, dreamed about the months ahead,
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