Our True Selves

Our True Selves

My newborn daughter fascinated me ˗˗ how the whites of her unfocused eyes were almost blue, her tiny fingernails like pink seashells, the top of her head sweet-scented. The warm weight of her small body held within it all that she was destined to be. This captivated...
Speaking the Truth in Love

Speaking the Truth in Love

A bouquet of fragrant red roses, a spray of white chrysanthemums, lilies arranged elegantly in a vase ˗˗ each of these flowers convey a certain meaning. Learning the special symbolism of flowers became a popular pastime during the 1800’s, when Victorians sometimes...
Two Hearts, Two Homes

Two Hearts, Two Homes

I have lived in many different houses. I raised my children in a sprawling bungalow by the sea, and in a century-old farmhouse with crooked floors, and in a renovated cottage tucked in the bend of a glacier-fed river. Each one became home because we dwelled there as a...
Shine Like Stars

Shine Like Stars

Images of the distant cosmos sent from the newly launched James Webb Space Telescope give humanity a view of the universe never before seen. The images reveal amazing detail, right down to tiny bursts of light which are galaxies containing trillions of stars. The Webb...