Every Saturday morning, without fail, my sister Joanne and I meet for coffee at our favorite cafe.  When the weather is nice we sit outside and the waitress who has been serving us for years brings us our order without even having to ask us what we want.  We have comfort food and girl talk, [...]

Today was Susan’s birthday and she hummed happily as she drove home from work.  She was really looking forward to dinner at her favorite restaurant with her husband Paul.  A neighbor had agreed to take care of the kids for the evening and Susan had nothing to do but get ready and have a fun [...]

Sharon and Keith had shared twenty-five years of marriage and in that time Sharon had never asked for much, but Keith always knew she really wanted a pearl necklace. Quietly slipping out of bed on the morning of their anniversary, he took the beautiful pearl necklace he had bought her and wrapped it around the [...]

Walking through the Old Town district of Scottsdale, Arizona each year during our winter vacation is always a favorite activity of mine.  My husband David and I wander for hours, holding hands, window shopping and stopping for coffee at pretty little sidewalk cafes.  It’s especially romantic in the early evenings as white Christmas lights come [...]

George had been a major league baseball fan all of his life.  Every opportunity to latch onto a few tickets found George in his favorite seat — first seat, second row, right behind first base. In the three years he had been seeing Mary he had never been able to interest her in going to [...]

The day my daughter Amber was born seventeen years ago was a proud and happy moment for Jimmy and me.  Like all new parents we were so proud we could burst, and Jimmy hovered anxiously over my bed all that first day as I held Amber in my arms. Unlike today when a mother and [...]

A young man boarded a plane for Dallas with a huge armful of beautiful red roses.  He was on his way to ask the love of his life to marry him. As he walked down the airplane aisle, he handed each passenger a rose and showed them a picture of his fiancé-to-be who would be [...]