Prepared with love for him at dinner’s end, an unannounced surprise made carefully into a luscious circle of fresh crimped crust…

We do not want to be apart. For each member of our family, including him, this is the hardest part of our sacrifice. We love him, and he loves us.

In a white country church house with six pews on the right and six pews on the left, I formed my first ideas of God and his people.

For all Mrs. Zook knows, yellow and gray may be out of style by now. She would have to ask her sister Kim, who knows about things like that.

We have been ferried up, up, up the excruciating climb, full of dread and horror. Now we creep over the edge and hang poised.