On June 17, our lives were forever altered by the sudden loss our daughter, Whitney Jean Anderson. She was 34 years old and had a sudden and massive brain bleed – unpreventable and unpredictable. Whitney was one of those persons who lit up a room and collected friends wherever she went. She will be missed […]
The following week, after my episode of getting lost, I drove back to Texas. My temp job in Minneapolis had ended. The months away from Texas had allowed me to escape the day-to-day tension of my marriage without calling it an official separation. Now it was time to deal more directly with my […]
Friends, I started writing The Little House Essays over a dozen years ago. I don’t know why it’s taken me all this time to share it. Maybe because it’s hard to bare my soul; maybe because I had a difficult time believing that my story was worth telling. Either way, I’m sharing it now as […]
My sister Merry was a force. She was a red-headed Wonder Woman, packed into a 5’2” frame. She was a tsunami of energy when it came to getting a project done. She could accomplish more in a 24-hour span than most anyone I know. Whatever you needed done, you’d want Merry on your team. Need […]
Yesterday I lost a good friend–a faithful companion who helped me see life from a detailed perspective, one full of appreciation and fascination for the beauty in the world. My husband Kevin and I were visiting my brother Michael and his friend Nanette in St. Louis, Missouri. We spent the afternoon touring the city’s famous […]
Kairos Time The ancient Greeks used two words for time. The first was chronos and referred to clock time – time that can be measured – seconds, minutes, hours, years. Kairos was the second. “Where chronos is quantitative, kairos is qualitative. It measures moments, not seconds. Further, it refers to the right moment, the opportune moment. The […]