Let me tell you about an African woman named Leonida Wanyama. For Christmas dinner her family had boiled…
Lenora was dying. She was 54 and had inoperable cancer. She lay in bed on pillows surrounded by…
Pistol waits for me by the gate outside her stable. What took you so long? I can almost…
Sunday evening at Church on the Rock in Oklahoma City. Soft music filled the sanctuary. I stood near…
The house was quiet. It was a spring day in 2011, mid-morning. My two older boys were at…
It was never going to happen. Not even my family was planning to make a big deal about…
If you suffer from chronic pain—particularly chronic back pain—you are far from alone. Since 2010, chronic pain has…
Dogs have always held a special place in my heart. Where others might just see an animal, I…
I walked up and down the aisles of the bicycle shop, fighting back tears. Michael is supposed to…
I turned the flash drive in my hands, my fingers running over its smooth case. It didn’t seem…
In early 2014, when she was 86, Mom relocated from the mountains of northern California to the prairie…
Even as I worked, I could feel it moving in, circling more tightly around me, focused and unswerving,…
