This dear one left the planet today – on Summer Solstice, a day she loved. Karen, you will be so missed AND I know you are free – and...

Election night, my wife and I went out to eat at a Thai and sushi restaurant about 10 miles from our home in rural Central North...

This blog first appeared on Huffington Post, November 2, 2016. I was raised in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, about 95 miles northeast of Fairfield,...

There I am, among photographs of a dinner table waiting for guests; a peahen, her pale white crest every bit as captivating as her cobalt...