Phelps, Dawn
My Little Sister Joanie
Dawn Phelps
Columnist
It is difficult to accurately describe my little sister Joanie. She lived in Fairbanks, Alaska, for over forty years, and she loved it there. She died unexpectedly in...
Phelps, Dawn
A True Alaska Story
Dawn Phelps
Columnist
Glenn heaved another spare tire on the back of his truck. “I might need that on the trip,” he thought to himself. For...
Phelps, Dawn
“No View Beyond Hill”
Dawn Phelps
Columnist
“Did you see that sign?” I asked my brother Gary as we drove along a narrow, hilly, curvy road in Kentucky. We were...
Phelps, Dawn
Tennessee Cornbread on New Year’s Day
Dawn Phelps
Columnist
I am writing this on New Year’s Eve. The house is quiet now, and businesses in town are closed. That’s fine. It is...
Phelps, Dawn
The Most Special Christmas
Dawn Phelps
Columnist
*I know Christmas is a few days in the past. But I would like to share a true Christmas story from my...
Phelps, Dawn
Just a Little Light: The Candy Cane Lady (Part II)
Dawn Phelps
Columnist
When Terri went to bed one night in 1992, she could see. When she awakened the next morning, she was blind, and...
Phelps, Dawn
Just a Little Light: The Candy Cane Lady (Part I)
By Dawn Phelps
The first time I met Terri was in December 2014 when I took another hospice employee with me to meet her. Before...
Phelps, Dawn
JUST A LITTLE LIGHTA Train Story—Right Under My Nose
By Dawn Phelps
I have lived in Miltonvale or nearby for many years—my first husband and I moved here in 1971. A few years ago,...
Phelps, Dawn
Just a Little Light: “You Are So Rich”
A few weeks before my mother died several years ago, she made the remark to me, “You are so rich.”
The remark caught me by...
Phelps, Dawn
Just a Little Light: Dick, Harry, and the Racoon
Dawn Phelps
Columnist
I recently wrote about our little town with its own Tom, Dick, and Harry, and this story is about Harry, Dick, and a...
Phelps, Dawn
True Confessions of Young Train Hoppers
Last week I wrote about Miltonvale, the town of Tom, Dick, and Harry. Rarely I have joined the three boys for tea in the...
