This is literally the only time in my life that I use cream of chicken soup, but it works great as a binder. This is pure comfort food and the addition of tarragon takes the easy recipe up a notch. I cannot count the times I have made this and tak ...
I don’t need to look at pictures because I hold snapshots in my heart. I close my eyes and picture my son running down the hill with a star-spangled top hat perched on his toddler head. The next year he holds hands with his sister, with red, white a ...
The sheet my son holds is thin and weathered from the years. It is an inherited page from my husband's family. The words and songs were his as a child and are our tradition now, and we claim them in this kitchen one more year. He i ...
I'm not sure how old Shelby was when I noticed that her emotions were deeper and more sensitive than most. But I do recall arranging and rearranging her stuffed animals A LOT to get them in just the right spot so she could sleep. Perfectionism is a ...
Before the Foundation, family members were sleeping on the floor of this hospital, desiring to stay close to their loved ones who had suffered life-altering burns and wounds. Family members could now stay there, close to those they love.
I'm so honored to welcome my friend Jennifer Dukes Lee to this space today. She is a fellow lover of Iowa sunsets and dirt roads. Our paths first crossed several years ago on a writer's retreat and God orchestrated many meet-ups since then which ha ...
In a world full of technology, handwriting still holds the most power. Many years ago my grandmother moved from the home she had lived in for most of her life to a smaller apartment in a retirement community. A few weeks later a large box arrived ...
