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...

On a cold evening, a few weeks ago, I turned on the television and was pleasantly surprised to find there’s a whole channel devoted to...

When I was in high school, our drama group put on the play The Miracle Worker. As was the case for most productions, I was a backstage...

I work at a preschool a couple of days a week. I know that these kids ranging from one to five-years old will eventually grow up to be...

We got a taxi to the hospital and after what felt like forever—if you’ve spent time in the waiting room with a sick loved one you know...

If you’ve been inside any stores since Christmas, you know that Valentine’s Day must be just around the corner. Heart-shaped candy boxes...

I’ve published a few books over the last eight or nine years, and something I’ve noticed when a person has read one of my books is her...

“They don’t know that it isn’t real.” This was the reply from Rodrigo, the man who took our family snorkeling on his little boat, the...

When our girls were little, one of their favorite games to play was hide-and-seek. They would tell me or my husband Brent to hide our...

Last weekend, our youngest son’s soccer team played in a tournament in Gatlinburg. Back in August, when they first listed it among the...