It was 1969 when my cousins Tom, Charlie, and I saw Rudolph the Red-Nosed reindeer. Our families were at Grandma Helen and Grandpa Bart’s home in Wisconsin for Christmas Eve. I didn’t know that my family would be moving to Colorado in the spring. The grown-ups knew this so they planned a special Christmas for … Continue reading The Christmas we saw Rudolph

**In the summer of 2007, I went with a medical group of 7 strangers with Project CURE to Kenya. We had a 2 week medical mission in the lakeside village of Mbita. Lakeside meaning on the shores of Lake Victoria which separates Kenya from the Congo. It was one of the best things I have … Continue reading The Africa Journal

**Written after Bill died. I needed some way of writing the story of who we were, as friends and as 2 people who loved each other.   OUR STORY   It was raining the day you left for Wyoming. I remember watching your Grandfather’s truck leave the subdivision. It is 1978. My 15 year old … Continue reading Our Story