The Bluebird That Found My Daughter
My name is Diane Whitfield. I am sixty one years old, and for the last forty four Saturdays of every single year, I have set… Read more
The Heartbeat I Heard Again
My husband died on a Tuesday afternoon in March, splitting firewood behind our house in Averyville, Ohio, and by that Friday, a piece of him… Read more
The Daughter They Said Quit The Navy
I was standing against the back wall of the Millbrook Veterans Hall holding a tray of plastic cups when a man in Navy dress whites… Read more
The Honors They Almost Denied Him
The clerk at the funeral home looked at my discharge papers for a long moment, set them down on the counter without meeting my eyes,… Read more
The Piano Sold Out From Under Her
Aldous Rike sold my husband’s piano for twelve hundred dollars to a church two counties over, and when I asked him how a man could… Read more
The Roof Fund He Called Vision Projects
Pastor Delwin Cransley stood at the pulpit of Board Camp Road Baptist Church, folded his hands the way he did before he was about to… Read more