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The evening I told my two sons that we were going to move, they seemed to take it pretty well. They asked questions, voiced a few concerns, but moved on from the subject relatively quickly. A bit [...]

My husband and I visited one of those pop-up Halloween stores the other weekend on our way home from routine errands. Have y'all been to one of these stores lately? There. Aren't. Words. [...]

The Internet is rotting the world. Okay...so that's an exaggeration. Yes I love Facebook. Yes I panic when I accidentally leave my smartphone at home. And yes I just Googled how to unclog my [...]

  One day when my kids were small we passed McDonald’s after a day at the beach. I thought it would be fun to spontaneously treat them to ice cream cones. I can still recall their looks of [...]

  One day when my kids were small we passed by a McDonald’s after a day at the beach. I thought it would be fun to spontaneously treat them to ice cream cones. I can still recall their looks [...]

It doesn't take a spooky holiday full of plastic ghouls and scary movies to remind us that fear is a real (and regular) part of life. Perhaps this is why there are SO MANY Bible verses that speak [...]

I have this phrase that I like to say when I blow it in some area. Like recently, when I overcooked some chicken in the crockpot, by...like...10 hours, I said: "That's okay. I'm good at enough [...]

I love the book of Ruth. It’s been one of my favorites since I was a kid, and not because of the way it ends. I love it because of the way it begins. It's the first 22 lines, I think, that really [...]

Firewalls. Smartphones. Snapchat. Seriously--our parents NEVER had to deal with this stuff. As if parenting wasn't hard enough, now we have to monitor sophisticated technology that frankly our [...]

"She's not having a good day." This was the end of a recent Facebook update on my friend who is in the battle of her life with ovarian cancer. The words sunk like a stone in my heart. It's true [...]