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There are almost 24 writers who are taking part of a collaborative Pinterest board titled WORDS. Every other week, we change the word we are focusing on. Today, the word TRIBUTE is being featured. It means giving honor, praise, respect, and gratitude. I can think of so many things that deserve respect, and I am…
Two women get four new lungs
When Janet Mahlberg ran into Lori Lawson a few years ago, it was more than just a surprise. It was a life changing experience. “It had been over 22 years since I had seen her,” said Mahlberg, adding the last time she had seen her classmate, Lawson was pushing a 6-month-old baby in a stroller….
This is what a real hero looks like.
Today we went to a Veteran’s Day ceremony in San Marcos. The most touching moment was when one of the speakers, who had lost his twin brother in Vietnam while he himself was serving, introduced a real American hero. His father, who was on the third deck below the water line when the ship…
Down the Wendell Road
It had been over twenty years since we drove down the country road at the edge of town. Rows of corn at full height and tasseled out followed the gentle slopes. Red barns flanked by large silos were surrounded by thick groves of hardwood trees, the perfect shelter against the harsh Midwest storms that blew…
Sarah Sundin and her recipe for Boston Cream Pie
Little did I know when I met Sarah Sundin at Mount Hermon Writer’s Conference in 2002 that we would become close, lifelong friends. I was taking the article track and she was taking the major morning, track on fiction writing. While I have to admit I am not much of a womance (woman’s romance) reader,…