Tuesday, March 17, 2026

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

JUST A LITTLE LIGHT Miltonvale’s Own Tom, Dick, and Harry

by Dawn Phelps  Miltonvale, Kansas, is the only town I know of that can boast of their very own “Tom, Dick, and Harry.”  Their parents,...