How to Talk to Your Children About Disasters
Earthquakes, tsunamis, famine, tornados, and death — not topics of normal everyday conversations with children who wake up thinking about trucks and forts, fairy tales…
3 Uncommon Goals for the New Year
As we change our calendars this week to a new year, we automatically feel an unspoken invitation to new beginnings and fresh starts. A year’s worth of mostly blank…
Fuel for Your Marriage
Have you ever read a story about how a couple got engaged? We’ve come across some real winners! One man proposed to his girlfriend, a…
Botox and Spirituality: To Botox or Not to Botox
To Botox or not to Botox? That is the question. Or is it? Maybe it’s breast augmentation or a tummy tuck or an eye lift or weight…
A Good Prayer
We moms have a zillion concerns for our kids. It doesn’t take long to discover that we as parents need all the help we can…
Conflict in Marriage is Like Peeling an Onion
Do you know the unwinnable game at your local kids’ pizza place — the one where the machine pops up cylinder-shaped objects that the contestant must…
Easter Holiday, or Holy Day? The Deeper Meaning of Easter
Something feels a little uncomfortable about Easter to me. For starters, it’s not about a sweet, soft, cuddly newborn baby, like Christmas. Babies are likeable….
Celebrating Thanksgiving
It’s my favorite time of year again. The leaves have changed and are at their peak. There is a sugar maple tree on the south side of…
Gratitude 101: How Do You Teach Gratitude?
Five boys. Five loud, active boys with their own unique personalities and preferences. Personal tastes, too. So at dinner a week or two ago, several…
The Real Mother’s Day is Yet to Come
My first memories of Mother’s Day are sitting in church as a child as the minister recognized all the mothers. I remember them standing in recognition…