Romantic Tales

Who Would Have Thought?

Call it divine intervention on which many of life’s pivotal moments are based. On a frigid December morning in 1978, I stopped off at...

The Best is Yet to Come

It was a wondrous time to be young and single in the 1970s. There was freedom to learn about yourself and grow in so many ways. We were...

Did You Ever Whirl on a Rainbow? I Did One Night.

Mother was a romantic. She loved the movies and peppered her conversations with descriptions of scenes or quotes, such as “Remember what...

Snap Out of It!

7th grade. I remember his name—Harry Silon—destined to go into the Air Force after we graduated high school. We would meet at Wendell...

Just a Dream and the Wind to Carry Me

When I was 28 years old, my friend Veronica, known to all as Ronnie offered to introduce me to her girlfriend. Because I was already...

Do You Want to Know a Secret?

The events that stay in my mind from my seventeenth year always seemed important. The day before my birthday, February 7, 1964, a new...