Today is our daughter’s 25th birthday. Quite a milestone. She has grown up to be a happy person, a successful nurse, and continues to be a bright, shining star in our lives. Every year for the last 24 years I’ve been telling her “the story of her birth” on the night be...

Anyone who knows me understands that summer is “my season”. I love the warmth, the long days, the colorful flowers and lavish green trees, the flittering monarch butterflies and joyful songbirds, and just getting the opportunity to be outdoors more. One of my new favor...