“Where were they? They can’t have just disappeared.” Escaping with the giddy feeling of power in outsmarting their “jailers,” three students snuck off campus and headed for 7-Eleven three blocks [Read more...]
And now the funerals begin. I can’t believe ten kids are dead. Again. Mowed down by a troubled peer. Again. And to think I was all set to blog about the royal wedding… maybe later for [Read more...]
For your Mother’s Day enjoyment, here are my favorite mom facts and quotes modernized with a hashtag: 1. #Detectivework: Silence is golden unless you have kids. Then it is just suspicious. 2. [Read more...]
He looked rumpled like an unmade bed, as if he had fought hard for his peace. But with his charming demeanor, this whimsical bear seemed to be begging me to grasp the secret he knew deep. Carved with [Read more...]
As Jesus stood on the Mount of Olives and breathed deep the morning air, He knew this final journey into Jerusalem would unroll the last bittersweet pages to His life on this earth. The gentle [Read more...]
But answers are often not so quick. Or at least answered so I can see them. So when it comes down to my own prayer walk, I can stay connected to God's tubes of life-giving air…or not. I really have [Read more...]
2018 Olympic Update: I'm obsessed with the Olympics. While watching the bobsled last night I couldn't believe last summer, I hurtled down a 103 foot vertical drop on the track from the 2002 Winter [Read more...]
We all know someone with cancer as it runs like wild horses through our towns, our churches, our families, our selves. Our children sicken and die of the flu of all the blasted things. And cars wreck [Read more...]
As she slid the register drawer open and and fisted my change, I chirped, "Merry Christmas." She returned the greeting in like, but then turned square on, and scowled, “I’m over it. I wish it was done [Read more...]
It’s two weeks to Christmas people! Does that statement make your worry level rise or your heart flutter with joy? Does it make your head spin and your tension explode like the top of a pressure [Read more...]