The other day, I asked my husband Brent and our younger son Ezra to list some phrases that they like and some that they don’t like. (I’m...

Growing up the middle sister of three girls, we had a lot of Barbie dolls. We liked to make haute-couture dresses for them using scraps...

The other day, I heard someone say that Jesus asked 307 questions in the first 4 books of the Bible, but, of the 183 questions he was...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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,...

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

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...

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...

“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...

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

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...

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...

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...