I was never a team sport individual, especially in high school, but was fortunate to have a geometry teacher who taught a climbing course after school. His name was Joe Wilcox. Joe had some notoriety as the leader of an ill fated expedition to Denali, Alaska in the 1960s. Many deaths and controversy resulted in […]

“Not another temple,” I thought as our driver insisted we take yet an extra detour. This one sat in the hills up another winding narrow road. We walked over and were led through the front door to the central chamber where a smoldering fire filled the room. This was where Shiva married Parvati.  The ash […]

At the beginning the hours spent in the waiting room were simple boredom. She had gone in for what was to be a routine surgery. I heard my name paged and then a telephone conversation. I began to shake and the breathing became hard. I listened to the surgeons words. The hours passed and night […]

We had made a track that looped down the dirt driveway, around the weathered outbuilding and through the cottonwood trees. My great grandparents had homesteaded this bit of Nebraska at the turn of the century. Stories were told of my grandmother as a young girl driving the plow horses as they dug the hole which […]