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When we can't help but be thankful
One of my all-time favorite books is L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables. Anne, the waifish orphan, is mistakenly brought to live with...
Sep 18, 2023


Tell Someone Day
Other than your regular holidays—ones like Christmas, Thanksgiving, Mother’s Day, Arbor Day—there are some pretty crazy celebrations that...
May 18, 2022


Canopy bed
I always wanted a canopy bed, a canopy bed with a frilly dust ruffle and tons of fabric draping over me as I dreamed perfect, happy...
Apr 18, 2022


A grateful heart
I have a sign in my kitchen which has been there for more than a decade. It reads: “GIVE THANKS: Oh Thou, who has given us so much,...
Nov 22, 2021


Hope for an untangled future
Per our usual tradition, my family put up our Christmas decorations the day after Thanksgiving. (By the way, this isn’t a discussion...
Nov 30, 2020


Great Grandpa
This pandemic may be called many things—scary, inconvenient, ill-timed, unprecedented. As a mom to two graduating daughters and two...
Jul 17, 2020
Fireflies
A friend recently told me about taking a group of Texas teens to Nashville for a mission trip. As they sat outside at an evening...
Jul 22, 2019
Just another day on Venus
As I was listening to the radio recently, I heard some interesting facts about the planet Venus. I already knew a few things, like that...
Aug 27, 2018
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