My daughter tried to coax my young granddaughter to introduce herself to other children. She taught her how to look kids in the eye, smile, and tell them her name.…
My three-year-old granddaughter was perplexed on her first day back at Sunday School after a pandemic-induced hiatus. “Mom, Victoria looked new today. She had glasses on her eyes.” Then she…
Women know how to get things done and make things happen. By nature, we’re problem solvers. We juggle kids’ schedules, whip up dinner from a near-empty pantry, and figure out…
We were hanging a sports logo in my grandson’s new bedroom. The vaulted ceilings made us underestimate how high up it needed to go, and we didn’t have a ladder…
I was a brand new Christian, and I had no idea how to start reading the Bible. In fact, I couldn’t have told you where to find Genesis or Revelation…
What color is the blood of a white person?” My second grade teacher’s face was flushed. As she perched on the edge of her desk, our entire class yelled in…
Good Housekeeping. Family Circle. Ladies Home Journal. In the days before Pinterest and even the Internet, magazines were my windows to the world. I poured over them for recipes, parenting…
Ninety days. I counted them up on my calendar, carefully circling DAY NUMBER NINETY. I was a young mom and my husband worked overseas. He regularly left my two young…
It’s been years since I’ve ridden this kind of emotional roller coaster. Many years ago my husband worked overseas. I was a young mom, and his three-month absences were almost…
I hung a palm branch on my front door this year to mark the remembrance of Palm Sunday. That’s the day Jesus entered Jerusalem on His way to the Cross.…
