Back when Covid was raging through the world, I woke up one morning remembering the strangest dream: I was at a church potluck, and I saw...

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...

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

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

For 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...

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...

Our youngest son was recently interested in the game “Would You Rather?” In it, a person asks another person questions like: “Would you...

I 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...

Sometimes it’s hard to summarize a big concept, especially when you’re talking to young children. Explaining complex and heavy topics,...

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...

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...

Watching movies with Ezra, our five-year old son, is not exactly relaxing, that is, unless you like to give a running commentary...

While working on an assignment for school, my daughter found an interesting line of poetry. In her poem “Finding Voice,” Joellen...

When 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...