Silver Valley Stories

Today I spent the day being surrounded with comfort and joy. The comfort and joy I am referring to are my three friends, Tina, Brenda and ...

I am so sick of wearing black clothes. And gray clothes. And brown clothes. It seems like for months and months I have been clothed in...

Today is National Sibling Day!! I have been fortunate to be surrounded by many people who have great relationships with their siblings. ...

I really surprised myself this morning. My normal routine in the morning is going on a walk with my friend Nikki for about a half an hour ...

Dreams are a funny thing. Last night, for instance, I know I had strange dreams, but I don't really remember any of them. Yet there ...

I am really tired tonight. I think it is because I have had some time off. Spring Break. For the last week, my family here in Kell...

I have been a bit grumpy lately. I have been feeling unsettled. I have been negative and out of sorts. Little things have been really ...

Chicago, Chicago, that toddling town Chicago, Chicago, I'll show you around, I love it Bet your bottom dollar, you'll lose the blue...

Faces of Addiction. This is what Chris Arnade chronicles as he goes into the Hunts Point area of the Bronx, New York. But it is much mor...

To kick off National Poetry Month, my sister recently posted on her blog about our two grandmothers and shared a poem called "Lineage...

The Book of Galatians in the Bible talks about the nine fruit of the Spirit in the fifth chapter.  One of the fruit is kindness. The Greek...

I started grade school at Sunnyside Elementary School in Kellogg, Idaho in the fall of 1969.  I was six years old.  I would spend the next s...