My friend Trish, who is 7 months pregnant, is in the ICU with a brain infection. It isn’t responding to antibiotics. Her latest MRI shows it is growing. Surgery must be done this afternoon.

You could not find a person with more genuine warmth than Trish. She has such a gentle spirit and a […]

This photo was taken shortly after my husband, just a boy and a friend in those days, taught me how to play chess.

I felt silly when he took my picture. I was still very self-conscious around him. A few weeks earlier, he was just a guy in my Southwest Literature class, the […]