Spiritual Smart Aleck

My dad, John Litchfield, contemplating a large red delicious, autumn 1962. He passed away in 1975 from heart disease. My son JD called thi...

Me and Marley, keeping going It has been nine months since my husband died, and every day I adjust a little more to the new normal. It is...

Marley having a nice lie down in my kitchen porch chair this summer, before she tore that screen down The deer ate my nasturtiums this su...

The happiest part of my day is spent sitting on the kitchen porch after I shoo the dog out of my chair (it gets warm in the morning sun and...

Although the summer has been long and hot by our local standards, apparently it will not last forever. Already I can see the maple leaves ...

I knew a couple, both in their seventies, who lost a son to suicide. When the mother replied to my sympathy card, she said that she was sa...

Juanita, in an undated picture. Probably early 1940s. Her name was Juanita. She grew up in a Salvation Army orphanage in El Paso, Texas. ...