“Ed brought me roses today for no reason,” I say, still feeling the warmth that spread through my chest when my husband handed me the bouquet earlier in the day. Donna rolls her eyes. “Which wine shall we order?” she asks, looking around the table. There are five of us…
On a stormy early October evening in 1962, as thunder and lightning tore across the skies over downtown Asunción, Paraguay, we fought our way onto one of the crowded buses on the Avenida Mariscal López. Our church choir was headed to the soccer stadium, where the Billy Graham…
Before I began practicing tai chi four years ago, I thought it was a Chinese martial art form from thousands of years ago, shrouded in secrecy and mystery. Now it has become part of my daily routine. And I’m excited to share it with you. Numerous research studies have conclusively…
This week I voted. In President Obama’s State of the Union address, he said, “We can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.” In President Trump’s State of…
I sit in a large conference hall and look at those around me. Several hundred people are focused on the speaker, a professor from the esteemed Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She says, “And of course, there’s Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, a stellar exemplar of writing with authority.” The…