I love to receive gifts. I’m sure you do too. What’s wonderful about opening a gift is knowing the love and care that the gift-giver has gone to in selecting what is inside. It
The very first words God spoke to humanity remind me of a wedding. I love going to weddings. The celebration of two lives having a future together, the joy of love, the opportunity to
My father was an apple farmer. One day, visiting the orchard with him, he showed me a special tree. He was grafting one variety of apple onto the tree of a different apple variety.
I have climbed Quandary Peak in Colorado twice. This is one of the mountains in the Rockies that stands at over 14,000 feet (4300 metres) high. The hike, starting around 11,000 feet, is three
My mother discovered, on a parent-teacher evening at school, that at a very young age, I could be very creative. Each week on Monday morning at school, our assignment was to draw and write
My grandmother was a real lady. She always dressed well and would never go out in public without wearing a hat. She had a beautiful spirit. Always polite, gentle, and softly spoken. I never
We travel a lot. Being on the road means being away from things that I have easily at hand for all eventualities in life. So, I like to be prepared for any unpredictable event
When we moved from the UK to Boston in the USA, all our belongings were shipped across the Atlantic in a large container. Those possessions included terracotta pots from our garden in London. I
My husband likes to cook. One aspect of his cooking, I call it a habit, is leaving the tap, the faucet, running in the kitchen sink, whether it is to defrost shrimp, wash vegetables,
On vacation in California visiting Yosemite, we stayed in a cabin near the beautiful and ancient Mono Lake. One evening, as our young children slept, I noticed a large, unfamiliar bug on the wall
