Category: 2026

  • The Bleak Winter of 2026

    The Bleak Winter of 2026

    It is winter and, in my part of the world, aside from a fleeting landscape of white following a snowfall, browns and grays dominate day after day, with long hours of darkness and only occasional sunny days.  A pink rose dangles on a bush behind my family room, refusing to succumb to earth’s demand to…

  • Bridging the Times from Generation to Generation

    Bridging the Times from Generation to Generation

    I was ten years old when Uncle Ed died. His wife, my Aunt Jean, was Grandma Rose’s sister. My grandfather helped Aunt Jean sort out her life and move on after Uncle Ed passed. Grandpa sat at his dining room table, papers strewn everywhere, working on Aunt Jean’s stuff.  Aunt Jean had never written a…