I’ve never known how to dance. I don’t mean I don’t dance well. I mean I can’t dance! On a dance floor in high school―and later under a Disco ball in…
Cousin Camp (affectionately known in our family as Camp Cece) was in jeopardy! Every summer my husband and I host a camp for the potty-trained members of our tribe of…
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…
I put my girls to bed and then crumpled into a heap on my bedroom floor, first sobbing and then halfway wailing. My husband had been gone for weeks and…
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…
“There are so many things I wish I’d done differently while raising my daughters, but sitting together at the family table isn’t one of them.” I spoke those words in…
In spite of raised eyebrows from family and friends, we boarded a flight to New York. My daughter had been having seizures for three long months. The first one, which…
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…
