Rare is the person, who when encountering a stranger, can see behind the curtain of flesh like a sword that knows just where to punch into the joints and marrow to divide soul and spirit. Like an oran ...

COVID has found a lot of ways to change how life has looked for us over the past three months.  It’s restricted our calendars, stopped travel, and polarized us on subjects like racism and mask wearing ...

Pretty sure we’re all exhausted from hearing about the virus.  Probably we’re all sick to death that we might catch our death.  And it’s an absolute certainty that the rules keep changing on how best ...

“You’ll need to dress up for this tonight.”  These were the only instructions my son Allen-Michael gave to me the afternoon of our “fancy dinner.”  The kids had all signed an anniversary card and give ...

“Find a good old neighborhood. A square block of the USA. Stake your claim. Claim your space. Sink your roots & live your days. Build a fence. Close it in. Raise a lawn and grow some kids. Make a ...

Dedicated to The Senior Class of 2020 In my little corner of the earth, it will always be a Friday, March the 13th of the year 2020, that will be one to remember for all times. With a mysterious virus ...

Even after all of these years, I remember the day like it was yesterday.  The snowy, bitter cold Wisconsin March afternoon when I arrived home from college for a visit with my mom. My dad was in sunny ...

The secretary looked forward to her Easter weekend with family as she cleared her desk on what is known to Christians around the world as Maundy Thursday, the Thursday before Easter Sunday. There amid ...

In an effort to find a little quiet space, I parked myself on a cushy sofa of the elegant hotel lobby where I claimed a corner of the world for myself. Albeit for just a few moments, I sipped my coffe ...

I first became acquainted with Carol Kohankie about a year ago when she and I met through Facebook and then in person over coffee at Epic Gelato where we discussed Flower Mound history, hair care and ...

Along a ridge in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery of Concord, MA are a cluster of three graves. A sign with an arrow points to nearby burial site of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Tourists trek from all over the world to ...

How many times have you purchased a lottery ticket?  For some people it’s a regular thing, others may never have considered buying one.  My husband and I often give one another lottery tickets as gift ...

This past Christmas, as in Christmases past, I baked a lot of cookies. I start early in December and freeze the treats to be given to others so they know they are remembered. The house is filled with ...

“How can I help?” asks Madlin, a friend of mine, a very busy mom of two, God love her she’s always 10 minutes late to everything because she, like so many other moms I know, is over scheduled. “Madlin ...

Your days of mourning will come to an end, the smallest family will become a thousand…at the right time, I, the Lord, will make it happen. - Isaiah, Chapter 60, New Living Translation Jeanette Witheri ...

Here we are, once again, heading into the season of opportunity! Every year as we wind down the old and ring in the new, we get to decide how we’re going to finish it out. This year I get to spend the ...

It was just a few short years ago as I sat on the white sands of the Gulf of Mexico and watched four fledgling humans flap around in the emerald water as I shouted the words that became an inside joke ...

Well, this is embarrassing. One year during the thick of the holiday season I was tangled up in decorating tree after tree for friends like it was some sort of candy crack addiction. It was during thi ...

A tough thing happened for my kids recently. One of my son’s teachers from last year, someone he admired and learned a lot from, was arrested during the school day for sexual misconduct that had taken ...