Probably the nicest, most impacting gift I ever received from my husband was for our 48th anniversary. He gifted me with a beautifully designed leather-bound journal that he had been writing in for a year. For a solid year, every day, he noted something he loved about me. He wrote just inside the ...continue reading
A Thanksgiving of the Heart
I was a very frightened and distraught seventeen-year-old who, having returned home twenty minutes late from church choir practice, was locked out of my house. My boyfriend had brought me home after he and I finished rehearsing for an upcoming cantata. I pounded on the door but my mother wouldn't ...continue reading