I recently lost two high school friends during the same week. It was heartbreaking for me, so I can’t imagine how their families are managing. Melanie Dawn Hoback and I met before we ever started kindergarten. She was, in fact, my oldest childhood friend. We used to...

Every once in a great while aurora borealis is visible in my neck of the woods. Now, I’ve never seen it happen. I miss it every time. This past week, although I missed the first night, I went traipsing around in the dark after midnight looking for them on November...

All my life, I’ve heard the phrase “mind-numbing pain.” And I’ve been in some intense pain before. I’ve had surgeries in the past two years that left scars and left me crying pretty hard. Right now, I’m having intense tooth pain. Something has been amiss for almost...