I heard this quote not long ago and it stuck with me… At Christmas, we like to see things in their proper place.  We unwrap the oldest legends and the ancient truths.  We like our angels unchanged and our rituals familiar.  We like the right faces around the table, the right carols sung, the promise […]

There are a million things my Dad said that I remember fondly.  He was a goofball who loved to make folks laugh.  These days, random little things fly out of my mouth that he used to say.  Whenever someone would find him and say, “Whatcha doin’, Dad?”  he would always respond with, “Takin’ a bath.” […]

When I was a little girl, my family lived on forty acres in an old farm house far from town.  I was told that it had been a house in Chicago that was moved in pieces to West Michigan many decades ago.  I wish I could prove that story, because it seems like it would […]