Last week our friends, Dan and Sharon, brought us a three-course meal in pots and bags. They walked into our home, not as though we met two years ago, but like we were old friends. Their thirty-one years of marriage was apparent in the kitchen: Sharon unpacked the bags and set out the appetizer: Boursin…
After my father died our home on Aldine Street was packed with people for about two weeks. They had come from varying places to offer their condolences, attend the wake and accompany us as we bid daddy farewell. We were grateful for the influx of people but it was the people who lingered after the…
In the aftermath of Hurricane Michael, people donated toiletries, cleaning supplies and food by the truckloads to our church's hurricane relief center. Charles Raney, owner of Rodizio Grill in Sarasota, raised funds and sent a 53-foot truck full of fresh fruits, veggies, crackers, sodas, water, can foods, granola bars and boxes of bread. Charles' gesture…