Florida Excursions
Though Key West and St. Augustine are 467 miles apart, I got to visit both within the span of a week. On …
Honoring Robert Burns
A weekend of activities January 23-25 at Secession Golf Club (of which Steve is President) in Beaufort SC honored the 256th birthday …
My Friend Elizabeth
What a joy it was for me to write a letter in support of my dear friend Elizabeth Lodal’s nomination for 2015 …
Lazarus: Life, Death, Faith
The Lazarus Project: a Novel by Aleksandar Hemon was the book I happened to be reading when we got the news that Steve’s sister …
In Memory of Karen
Our family was greatly saddened by the death of Steve’s sister Karen on December 6, 2014. What a shock! We had just …
Counting Blessings
How fortunate we were this Thanksgiving to have quality time with David, Leslie and our twin granddaughters, while Lilli, Shelby, Sean and …
Three Good Books
Three books I’ve read recently compelled me to turn their pages rapidly for visits to faraway places: The Boys in the Boat: …
Contrasting Arboretums
In October I visited Arboretums in Dallas and Boston, after previously seeing the National Arboretum in DC. All were beautiful, but I …
Halloween Fun
Halloween is great fun with little kids around. This year, Steve and I were in Cambridge with Violet, Lilli and their friends …
Lake Tahoe
From Yosemite, Karen, Joe, Steve and I drove north to Lake Tahoe, the second deepest lake in the United States, after Crater Lake. …