My husband and I are still floating on a bit of a cloud from the trip we took earlier this month. We flew to Seattle where our sons both live. At the same time, our two daughters and their families were in St. Louis boarding a plane for Seattle (all eight of them on the same plane—you can believe some prayers were going up for that flight!) By early Saturday morning, we were all under one … [Read more...]

Let’s talk about romance. No, I don't mean the boy-meets-girl-and-they-fall-in-love-and-live-happily-ever-after kind of romance (although that is nice, too). I'm talking about "romance" as a way of life. Romance the way the Victorians thought of it—art for art's sake. Beauty for beauty's sake. Webster has a definition of romance that is this: A quality or feeling of mystery, excitement, and … [Read more...]