Two more pieces have been added to the Stories category:

As Strong as Death
…A sob caught in her throat and she rose, trembling.  There was a reason she had kept that chest of memory so tightly locked all these years.  It was a Pandora’s Box, full of things she couldn’t bear.  And now that it was opened she had a dreadful feeling that she’d never get it closed again…

Finding the Beautiful
It was our last Big Adventure as a family, though we didn’t know it at the time.  Perhaps only Mama had some premonition of the changes that lay in wait for us upon our return from the trip to Boston, Bar Harbor and Prince Edward Island.  Of course, she couldn’t have forseen…