I went to a dinner party last night with some friends. When my husband and I parked in front of their house, I noticed the barren...

About five years ago I saw Garrison Keillor perform his radio show “A Prairie Home Companion” on an outdoor stage in Boise, Idaho. He...

My son, John is visiting this week, and several times my heart has thrilled to hear him utter four little words, “I’ll make dinner...

It’s winter and the Snake River running behind my house is as grey as the clouds above it. With the passing of another year I’m thinking...

It was a spectacular sight watching two eagles fight each other as they hovered in front of our bay window. Folk singer John Denver once...

For the eighth day, I stared out the eighth floor window of the Hotel Elkhart. Below me spread the Midwestern town I grew up in. I’d...

Have you ever noticed that funerals for younger people are often much larger than funerals for the elderly? Especially if the elderly...

I took a walk on the Oregon Trail this morning. The southern leg of the Trail goes through part of our farm. I bushwacked my way around...

Did you know Easter is the most important holiday on the church calendar in Ukraine? I found this interesting tidbit browsing through a...

On was on vacation, driving through Louisiana when I looked around me and thought: this is what the West needs: water. The ground was so...

It’s three o-clock in the afternoon and for no discernable reason, I pace through my house opening first the front door and then the...

The trail to Wasson ridge in Tucson’s Saguaro National Park was pitiless. Sharp rocks and barbed cactus everywhere. But near the top, the...

On Idaho’s Snake River there’s little light pollution at night to dim the stars of a December sky. The moon is bright, but when its...

The wedding was a week before Christmas so the flowers were poinsettias. The bride wore a long ruby-red gown, and not just because it was...

What can you do with your body when you’re older? You can walk your body—sometimes. And stretch it. But how far? That’s the question that...

In the spirit of the Halloween season, I’d like to make a confession, I have never seen a ghost. But, I visited a ghost town, met a ghost...

Recently, I drove by the school my husband went to when he was a boy. It’s a lovely old building, a private residence now, but full of...

Wes, Doris, and Nina all accepted my invitation. Wes and Doris, my husband’s parents, and my mother, Nina, would enjoy a mountain drive...

In the summer the Snake River is sluggish-looking and seems to meander. There’s mossy patches and the water level is lower. People forget...

“Why won’t you come with the rest of our class to Switzerland?” he asked me. It was the Christmas holidays and several of my classmates...