Aug 9CrossroadsCenturies after the trumpet sound had finished echoing off the stones which used to be the walls of Jericho and centuries before King...
Sep 6, 2021Weed tree lumberjackFor the most part, my husband and I were raised as city people. A half-acre lot was plenty for our folks. They had their vegetable...
Apr 5, 2021Greatest of All TimeSomewhere between 4th grade and 7th grade, it was a common pastime for girls in my school to rank their friends. “Tiffany is my first...
Jan 25, 2021Would 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...
Oct 19, 2020Disagree to DisagreeI don’t get to read as much purely entertaining fiction as I’d like. They’re like dessert for me, so I don’t ingest them as much as the...
Jan 28, 2019Act Justly, Love Mercy, Walk HumblySometimes it’s hard to summarize a big concept, especially when you’re talking to young children. Explaining complex and heavy topics,...
Nov 28, 2017Yeah. I’ve done a little modeling…When Ezra, our African-born son, was struggling with his new language last year, we signed him up for speech lessons. At first it was...
Oct 23, 2017No Fair!This morning my 6-year old Ezra woke up on the grumpy side of the bottom bunk. In his defense, it was a dark, rainy Monday, and none of...
Nov 14, 2016Good guy or bad guy?Watching movies with Ezra, our five-year old son, is not exactly relaxing, that is, unless you like to give a running commentary...
May 18, 2016I am everything of all I have ever metWhile working on an assignment for school, my daughter found an interesting line of poetry. In her poem “Finding Voice,” Joellen...
Feb 9, 2016Leather SandalsWhen I was little, my mother would buy each of my sisters and me a pair of brown, leather sandals every year. She would caution us to...
