

The Totaled Eclipse
Music blared while wind blew through my open car windows dragging with it the smell of spring, hope and blue sky. My husband and I had...


He Only Corrects the Good Ones
My senior year in college I was editor of our college newspaper. You know, the old days, when they printed the things on paper. Anyway....


The Day My Friend Was Stabbed At School
Have you ever been locked in a classroom while an ambulance carried away a classmate after an incident of school violence? I have. It...


The Day I Stopped Being the Perfect Mother
Two days after Valentine’s Day with a threat of incoming snow and ice my husband loaded our suitcase into the back of our SUV early in...


It's Okay to Want Your Kids to Go Back to School
Last week after snow day #3 plus one school holiday I was done. It was past time for the kids to go back to school. My husband, whose...


Once Upon a Time on December 9
The sun shone across the gravel parking lot of my parents office that Friday afternoon. A few months earlier I moved home from college....


Standing in Rubble
Our ladies Bible study group just finished Beth Moore’s Quest. So I’m looking at the questions of the Bible differently. I’m also editing...


Thanksgiving Stole My Heart
Coffee fresh from the Keurig wafts through the house. I study the box of chocolates my sister in law brought me earlier this week. One...


Choose to be Joyful
I met Lynette in Belize on a mission trip. At the time I didn’t even know Belize had beaches and was a tourist destination. I went as...


The Day God Gave Me Freedom From Fear and Worry
You know that moment when someone says, “don’t I know you?”, and you panic because you’ve forgotten someone you’re supposed to know?...









































