Walking across the bridge, spanning the beautiful Oak Creek, I stopped in the middle and looked upstream, then down. Upstream looks so alive, beautifully painted with vibrant colors and movement of water gently cascading over mossy river rocks. The scene…
THE PRACTICE OF BEAUTY
Does this sound familiar? Are you stuck trolling the internet and watching news even though you know you will lose track of time and find yourself depressed and anxious at the end of the day? This is the second giveaway…
Children raising children
Karen vanBarneveld, 2017 (Updated 2025) In the winter of 1969, in a small desert town of Southern California, I gave birth to my daughter. I had celebrated my sixteenth birthday on August 1st of that year with some of my…
