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Life Happens Anyway
A short distance away, the last streetcar on McKinney Avenue in Dallas rumbles it’s rusty way home. The bars and restaurants that line the street are locking their doors forcing even the most die-hard...
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Greening Up
In this Uptown pocket neighborhood of Dallas’s Historic State Thomas District, the big live oaks still grow in yards, corners and along the manicured lawns of apartment buildings and the gated green...
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No Regrets
On the Hart-Tru courts in a bucolic Connecticut town, a woman hits tennis balls back and forth with her instructor. She has been coming here once a week for the last few years to let off steam and to...
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Summer Daze
In this grassy, rose-laden island thirteen miles off the pebbled beaches of Rhode Island’s meandering coast, visitors sit near shade trees, flowered alcoves and on benches along the pedestrian path...
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In The Open
Up until a couple of weeks ago, I couldn’t remember the last time I had laid a quilt down under a shade tree and opened a book, but that is exactly what I did when I clipped small dog, Charlotte, into...
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Finding A Moment
On this dull gray morning only a day away from noisy summer birds, lawn mowers and nearby house painters, the small dog sleeps next to me cocooned in the folds of the down comforter that lies across...
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One Haunted Story
On a dark moody night, deep in the heart of Horseman’s Hollow, ghouls lurk in the shadows behind bundled stalks of corn and along the lantern-lit path that winds its way toward an old gristmill. They...
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“Rules for Being Human”
I wasn’t sure I would write a blog post this month. On October 26th my young nephew, Cody, lost his long, hard battle with cancer and my husband, Barry and I gathered with family and friends in Fargo,...
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“Pay It Forward”
I’ve never been very good at keeping a New Year’s Resolution. Like many people, I start out all fired up but then lose my enthusiasm a few weeks in. Of course, reflecting on how we have fallen short...
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The Spa Ladies
In this lavender-scented atrium at the edge of a modern looking building, the spa ladies relax in soft chairs carefully arranged in alcoves of tropical plants and candles, amidst a massive stone...
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The Gift
In a white clapboard house nestled near a pond deep in the woods, an elderly woman knits in her chair. Family photos in various sizes decorate the walls and dozens of small frames cover the surface of...
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