Happy National Day of Encouragement!
I’m regularly amazed by the addition of holidays to the calendar which I never knew existed. I’m not just talking about silly ones like...
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- Jun 11
Drawn
Have you ever watched a cartoonist draw the character for which he’s famous? Take Charles Schulz, for instance. If you watch a video of...
- Jun 5
Live studio audience
Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum When I was growing up, we watched a lot of sitcoms with a live audience, since it was a popular format for...
- May 26
Time Traveler
In the third book of my middle grade series of fantasy fiction, I created a character named Gus who has two magical powers, and one of...
- May 8
Busy
May has got to be the busiest month of the year, at least, it is for me in my current season of life. Graduation parties and wedding...
- Feb 12
Kink in my hose
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...
- Jan 30
Pushing the buttons
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...
- Dec 30, 2022
Leap of faith
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,...
- Nov 28, 2022
Longing for Dawn
My older son was a horrible sleeper for his entire first year. He was remarkably pleasant when he was awake during the day, basically...
- Aug 16, 2022
Rest from gleaning
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...
- Aug 9, 2022
Crossroads
Centuries after the trumpet sound had finished echoing off the stones which used to be the walls of Jericho and centuries before King...
- Jun 27, 2022
Poison ivy
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...
- Jan 3, 2022
Artificial reefs
“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...
- Dec 6, 2021
We are the champions
Last weekend, our youngest son’s soccer team played in a tournament in Gatlinburg. Back in August, when they first listed it among the...
- Oct 11, 2021
Line of dominoes
A few weeks ago, I heard an unmistakable chirping sound as I walked through the basement to the laundry room. We had recently changed the...
- Sep 27, 2021
A little help
As I was sitting on the sidelines of one of my sons’ soccer games recently, I heard a familiar question, “A little help?” It was part...
- Aug 30, 2021
Stockpiling God’s blessings
Our two sons are both on travel soccer teams. This means that they seem to be playing ball all the time. In the winter, we’ve watched...
- Apr 5, 2021
Greatest of All Time
Somewhere between 4th grade and 7th grade, it was a common pastime for girls in my school to rank their friends. “Tiffany is my first...
- Feb 22, 2021
Hold my ladder
As a homeowner, there are plenty of jobs most of us just don’t enjoy doing: weed-eating, grout-cleaning, baseboard-dusting, etc....
- Jan 25, 2021
Would You Rather?
Our youngest son was recently interested in the game “Would You Rather?” In it, a person asks another person questions like: “Would you...
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