We have a winner!!! Judy at Judy  has won a copy of Carving Angels, a sweet little Christmas book! A big, BIG thank you to everyone who en...

Erik, right and a colleague, Larry.  On the back of the picture, it says: 'I'm the one in green'. Remembrance Day. A day set...

Our Steed. I'll explain . . . Our oldest daughter believed that there was something called the 'Universal Animal Call'. It w...

Our Engineer - far right. Our son, an army engineer, was on his Combat Leadership course. It was gruelling. Months of training. An adren...

Mmmmm.  Sweet, tasty stickiness. It categorizes you. Marks your place in the family. Even decides if you will be granted admission to th...

This giveaway is huge!  Co-hosted by Tristi Pinkston and I'm a Reader Not a Writer , it is a chance to win wonderful prizes. Many, man...

Notice the cute little boys. One with hair. One with . . . cheeks. Ignore the glasses. When I was expecting my second son, I craved an...

Mark, tricycle fiend. Or just fiend. Mark was angry. And no one could get angry like our little three-year-old. Anyplace would be better...

Standing: Bern, Eldor, Glen Sitting: Mom On Mom's first day of school, she spoke almost no English, only Swedish . . . My first da...

Mom, third from left, and five of her eight brothers. Her 'baby sister' Roy, alias Rosie, is far left. Another selection from my...

My Mom, age 20. Why couldn't I have looked like that?! It's the first of November.  If she were still with us, my Mom would have...

Seated: Grandma and Grandpa Berg and 'She Who Holds the Horses' Surrounding them: The Instigators Halloween. Ghosts and goblins...

To all of my faithful readers . . . First, thank you so much for your comments and encouragement. You are true friends. Now, the bad news...

Mark. With his friend. Our family loves root beer. Homemade. And our eldest son can sleep through anything. These two facts are related....

We never got the chance to help. Two days after that visit, my husband's mother suffered a bad fall, breaking her hip and causing consid...

As our visits continued, we quickly came to discover the positive, independent attitude and irrepressible sense of humor that marked our new...

For the next several months, we stopped in for a visit with Mary nearly every week. Her windowsills were soon lined with little potted plant...

It was a small cabin, hewn from the very stone upon which it stood. It stood some ways back from the main highway, perched precariously on a...