by Priscilla H Wilson | Nov 15, 2021 | Death, Faith, Family, Travel, Writing
In 1986 Rod, Kaze Gadway and I walked the narrow-cobbled streets of Avila, Spain. Every step immersed us in memories of St. Teresa. We rambled through twists and turns of the narrow streets and located the Convent of St. Teresa near the Paseo del Rastro. Built over...
by Priscilla H Wilson | Jan 1, 2018 | Aging, Death, Faith, Family, Photography, Writing
Wishing a Merry Christmas and a great New Year has set my mind to spinning. Sixty-four years since my first date request from Rodney Wilson. That was to go out for a hamburger after operetta rehearsal on Wednesday night. He didn’t know that mid-week nights were off...
by Priscilla H Wilson | Oct 19, 2017 | Aging, Death, Faith, Family, Writing
It occurred to me recently that we all live on one small blue marble traveling through the space of the universe. Some days I forget that fact and think I’m just located in Prairie Village Kansas. Not! Who was the writer a few years ago who explained our impact...
by Priscilla H Wilson | Dec 16, 2016 | Aging, Birding, Death, Faith, Family, Photography, Travel, Writing
As an author, I experience that one of the hardest moments of working on a book is deciding the title. Maybe that comes easily for some folks, but I always struggle with that task. Several years before his death, Rodney Wilson began work on his life story. Many bits...
by Priscilla H Wilson | Jun 8, 2016 | Death, Family, Writing
Fifty-eight years, eight months and twenty-one days after that first, “I do” Rodney Wilson drops to the floor with a “catastrophic brain hemorrhage.” About mid-afternoon the next day the nurse says, “I expect his heart rate and blood pressure to spike and then...
by Priscilla H Wilson | Mar 27, 2015 | Aging, Death, Family, Writing
Another dear friend and colleague died this week. Betty Pesek and I first met on the west side of Chicago in April, 1967 at the Ecumenical Institute. Forty-eight years ago this month. In early 1967, staff at the EI developed a tactic they called “the Trilogy” to...