As we were driving down a backroad highway a few weeks ago, I saw a man standing in a parking lot, waving and smiling at people who drove...

I was talking to a Sunday school teacher about classroom behavior and how to manage the rowdier kids during the hour he has them every...

I pass the same Burger King restaurant several times a week, though I’ve never actually eaten there. On my frequent passings, I’ve...

Looking out at the dreary winter landscape that is my backyard in February, I have to rally my senses to look forward to a lovelier...

Before our schedules became too busy for family trips in the summertime, we used to take an annual trip to a high-rise condo at the...

When our kids were little, one of their frequent requests was: “Daddy, tell us a story about a time you got hurt.” That may sound strange...

I’m not much of a daredevil. I’ll ride a few roller coasters in the summer and maybe glide on a sled once a year if we get enough snow,...

When my husband was in kindergarten, his class took a field trip to The Cross-Eyed Cricket, a catfish farm 20 or so minutes from his...

My older son was a horrible sleeper for his entire first year. He was remarkably pleasant when he was awake during the day, basically...

When I was growing up, one of my favorite fictional characters was a ditzy maid with a genuine knack for baking named Amelia Bedelia. She...

Tell me if this sounds familiar: you buy a ticket for a movie, sit down in the theater, watch a bunch of commercials, followed by a slew...

When my husband Brent and I were still living in Memphis, from time to time we enjoyed shelling out $5 to attend a Red Birds baseball...

Growing up mostly in the 1980’s, I will admit that I watched a lot of television. And once we eventually got cable, my sisters and I...

I love to read. In fact, falling headlong into a fascinating page-turner is one of my favorite things to do—summertime or wintertime,...

After a couple of months of harvesting grain along with the servants of Boaz, Naomi gets to thinking about her dear daughter-in-law Ruth....

In the second chapter of the Book of Ruth, we see the two widows, Naomi and her daughter-in-law Ruth, after they’ve traveled from Moab to...

Centuries after the trumpet sound had finished echoing off the stones which used to be the walls of Jericho and centuries before King...

When I come into the kitchen in the morning before our kids are up and going, I can almost always count on finding an assortment of water...

So it all started with a dead pine tree. Our yard is bordered by these giant conifers, and one of them up and died. We had a couple of...

When our older son Knox was around 4-years old, he was given my husband’s vast collection of Matchbox cars. Included in the throng were...

When we get a chance to get away, my husband Brent and I enjoy finding new places to hike. Considering that he was born near the Great...

Other than your regular holidays—ones like Christmas, Thanksgiving, Mother’s Day, Arbor Day—there are some pretty crazy celebrations that...

A few weeks ago I washed the inside and outside of most of the windows in our house. This is worth mentioning because I often feel like I...

I always wanted a canopy bed, a canopy bed with a frilly dust ruffle and tons of fabric draping over me as I dreamed perfect, happy...