Today would have been my mother Helen’s 92nd birthday. It also marks 73 years since her first husband, Raymond Stephenson, a heroic B-17 pilot from Ironton, Ohio, died in a […]

A brave young B-17 pilot from Ironton, Ohio, Raymond Stephenson, sacrificed his life to combat the Nazis during World War II. His nineteen year old wife, Helen, became a widow […]

Based on the advice of a friend, I spent part of the summer of 2013 at the New York State Summer Writers Institute, hosted by Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. […]

I pondered for words of wisdom to share for the Fourth of July. I decided to defer to those of FDR. “We look forward to a world founded upon four […]