Valentine’s Day landed midweek this year. My husband and I drove to the coast, one of our favorite places to visit. We’ve traveled this route many times—each curve of the road familiar, the line of trees along the shoulder the same, the waterways running alongside still carving out the path they’ve been reshaping for decades. […]
Valentine’s Day
Enduring Love
**The man hurried to his early morning doctor’s appointment, anxious to see his physician and leave in time for his next appointment across town. The practitioner asked the man what the urgent demand on his time was. He replied he went every morning to see his wife at the memory care facility where she’d been […]
Love That Never Fails
Today, while waiting at an intersection near the university where I live, I studied the faces of the people in the crosswalk. A handful jogged by on their way to the popular running path our city boasts. Others were students, backpacks in place, hurrying to their next class. One young man stood out from the crowd. […]
Valentine’s Day–Finding the Right Words for Love
In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, a work of which I am an ardent fan, Elizabeth Bennett wonders who first discovered the efficacy of destroying affection with verse. She declares that poetry must indeed kill love. In surprise, the oft maligned hero Fitzwilliam Darcy replies, “I have been used to consider poetry as the […]
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Valentine’s Day–Give the Gift of Romantic Reading
February 14 can mean different things for many people. For some, it’s a night out to dinner, flowers, candy and precious moments spent with the love of your life. For others, it can be the loneliest day of the year. Death, divorce and missed opportunities can leave many feeling left out by a holiday that […]