Instead of a dinner with fine china, I suggested restaurants with big screen televisions and wings. Testosterone and sports. Conversation could wait. He actually chose a hole-in-the-wall diner, but it was his choice. We laughed more during that meal than we had in months. No one was asking to have their food cut up, no milk was spilled and the only interruptions were from the waitress refilling our drinks.
On the flight home from the FamilyLife Speaker’s Retreat last year, Ray and I talked about praying, again, to look into adoption. I loved how God…
My daughter Kerissa is a very curious one-year-old who follows everything her three-year-old big brother, Kellus, does. If he runs in circles, she runs in…
Last Tuesday was doctor day at my son’s preschool. I forgot to take a white dress shirt for him (never mind that men’s white dress…
You might be shocked to learn that there are an alarming number of spouses who use sex as a weapon in their marriage. When frustrations…
My husband is on Facebook. It was an affront to our 23-year-old daughter when he joined, and she let him know he was “too old” for…
Have you ever been so diametrically opposed to someone else’s viewpoint on something that you literally felt void after absorbing his or her thoughts? As…
Just before Christmas while opening the mail, I reviewed the tax statement in the pile. “Pitiful,” I whispered to myself as I saw the small…
The late legendary advice columnist Ann Landers once said that the majority of the letters she received fell into two categories — agony from a writer…
Have you ever seen one of those spilt milk puzzles? They are all white and full of tiny pieces that all look the same without some…
