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Ernest Hemingway gave this bit of advice to writers: “Write the truest sentence you know.” I sit at my computer tonight, and this is the truest sentence I know: I am so weary. So very weary.  Exhausted at a bone-deep level. I had back surgery two weeks ago today, and the recovery has been difficult, to say the least. Even …

Today is Monty’s birthday, so I wanted to write about him. Monty and I have been married for almost 24 years and were together for five years before that. So I’ve had the privilege of loving and being loved by Monty for nearly thirty years. Sometimes, I look at him across the supper table or next to me on the …

I have a special affection for the word “vignette.”  I like the way it sounds with that little spring in the middle.  And I like vignettes themselves—pictures of small scenes that tell stories, or written pictures that tell stories.  The following scenes are vignettes from my life—vignettes that happened in my second home: church. Five years old.  I’ve been reading …

Last month, Monty and I went to a Monet exhibit at the Denver Art Museum. We bought the tickets about a month before the exhibit, and when the day came to go, I thought about cancelling. I wasn’t feeling well, and my spirits were low. But we went anyway, and by the time we left the exhibit, I felt completely …