“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken." Like mine.
Her cancer would return. It would be understandable if she had been consumed by worry. But then there was the lily.
The reason we hide Easter eggs in plain sight.
Memories now. A flood of tears and memories. But one day. . ..
When you lay your dearest treasure on all the earth to rest, what matters most.
Today, as we will lay my wife to rest, it will rain. And the tears will fall. But what a message of hope.
I caught the one in the middle. To keep is to treasure. A keepsake. A prized catch.
What love is
For these things I am deeply indebted to the man who raised me.
Where do you go when your heart is overwhelmed?
Like the connection between a ball and bat, so there is a connection between the Clover Park Timberwolves and the Lil' Crushers of Tillicum.
The ink well on heaven’s desk, does it contain ink?
“If I had the wings of an angel, over these prison walls I would fly.”
“Never reach the end of your life only to discover you have not lived.”
'Yet' is such a lovely little word although, typically, the context is one of turmoil.
And coming to our April 3 meeting will be Lakewood's new Police Chief Patrick Smith!
What you can see when the path grows steep.
The end, inexorably, inevitably comes but not without tears.
My wedding ring saved my finger and my wife’s played a part in saving her life.
This Feb.6, 6:30 p.m., Tillicum Community Center, 14916 Washington Ave. SW.
Learn your lessons well. It's a matter of survival.
One of my favorite baseball memories illustrating the importance of a dad's instruction.
Snow melts and garbage is hauled away, so time will tell whether the truth was told.
What happens when a young child, prepared for her search for the truth, dares to enter?
Like a book on virtues for young people in the Fiction section, the discipline required for character development is anymore passé.
We are transported through the text and the turning of the pages to remote places where we relive our own love story.
Late at night, the toys still on the display shelves in the toy sections of stores everywhere come to life.
The monster truck arrives at the nativity. Again.
On this 81st Anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day, as Americans pause to remember, a reflection on what it means not to be going home after all.
Supporting the Best Education for Every Student and our Growing Community. Special Election is on Feb. 14, 2023.
Before my life’s watch unwinds and my time ends.
Then this training may be for you.
In the troubles and questions and tears, there are treasured, precious moments.
She wanted me to see, to take her little hand, to be there, to stand with her, to walk together.
In my hurry through the misery of where I needed to go, I almost missed it.
Life, like baseball, means we must choose.
Regaining perspective - the 'gift' of grief.
It is very dark when that which is meant to light our way - and that of others - doesn't.
What was a tomato plant doing in the middle of such devastation?
And so it was, from a glance across a crowded room on campus at the University of Washington, that it all began.