Still I Will Follow...
Ordinary Adventures New Year's Eve Post
What Could Be More Important Than Voting?
Election Day is right around the corner, and I have no idea who I’m voting for. To be honest, outside of the school board election, […]
Life with Extra Cheese: A Book Review
Many of you know that I’m working on my own book about caring for my mother through her illness and death. And because you know […]
The Yes Game or How to Travel with Your Mother
After my father passed away I wanted to ease my mother’s loss by doing some traveling with her, something her and Dad had done together. […]
School Pictures and Dorian Gray
October is that time of year when school children all across America are bringing home portrait packages. Parents will wonder at how fast their children […]
A Taste of Hope After the Long Journey
Quietly and with only the barest of necessities, a family leaves the only home they have known. They are fearful of being apprehended by […]
Poopsicle
I have done many things in my life as a parent that I never thought I would do. I have uttered phrases like, “Don’t put […]
Marriage: Having Each Other's Back
I wish I could say that I have total faith in God and His strength to carry me through any difficult circumstance that comes my […]
Passing Us By
It is not uncommon for some of the most life altering events to pass us by without our realizing. That moment when the stripe turns […]
More Than We Ask
“Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within […]
Housekeeping Made Simple
People are always saying to me, “Your house feels so lived in.” You know why that is? We live here. We don’t have a separate […]
A Night Owl's Guide to the Day Job: 7 Tips
Nothing should ever begin before the clock reads 8 am. This should go without saying, but is seems this world is populated by less spiritual […]
Forced From Home
It was a chilly day 3 months ago. I had a warm coat, but the wind occasionally kicked up, making me wish I had one […]
Stained Glass Lives
Thanksgiving Eve in 2015, I sat in church holding a rock. As part of the service that evening, we were each asked to write something […]
