Moon Landing
Fifty years ago this summer in 1969 I was on a full dress Harley under the hot sun of South Dakota, headed for Alaska. Our destination...
THIRTY-THREE YEARS LATER…
We sat on the 11th floor balcony of the Flamingo Hotel in Penang, and marveled. Thirty-three years ago in 1986 our family had moved to...
The Christmas Tree
My first christmas after the divorce The wind moaned through the tall fir trees that framed my white cottage in northern Minnesota. I carrie
The Christmas Tree, Part 2
Christmas greenery festooned the nurses’ station at the 35 bed Fosston Hospital, and a small Christmas tree lit the corner. I was charge...
The Christmas Tree, Part 1
The wind moaned through the tall fir trees that framed my white cottage in northern Minnesota. I carried Nick and the groceries through...
TRIBES OF THE EARTH
A hot Sunday morning…I was around 15, sitting on the grassy meadow surrounded by Dani tribesmen, my people. We were worshiping—melodic...
PRISMS OF MEMORY
Life is a mosaic of remembered events fitted in the vaults of memory like magnificent stained glass. In quiet times we open the vault and ga
ADVANCING THE KINGDOM
She looked about 19, this slight Hindu girl in the bright sari at the sewing class. She had come up for prayer after I had related the Bible
REACHING & TEACHING
Three years ago we were driving in a dark bus from the domestic to the international Bangalore terminal when I saw them out the window....
LOST JEWELS
Waking the other morning I found the stone from my gold ring missing. I was horrified as the prongs gaped darkly at me. The semi-precious...
