Cheer orJeer in a Crisis?
This week, when all I hear are voices of doom and gloom in the face of pandemics, stock market crashes and toilet paper shortages, recalling
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It's Not That Complicated
When I volunteered to help in the children’s program at our church, I expected I would be the teacher, not the student.
Wounds of a Friend
In a week when I have been teaching and talking a great deal about friendship, I am the one who got schooled most. With a new book on the...
Forever Friends
I’ve been thinking a great deal about friendship lately – thinking about it and writing about it. In fact, my latest book, The Art of...
Christmas Crash
It’s hard to know how to describe the last three weeks. I could say that it was a wonderful and memorable Christmas season. That would be...
A burden to carry
I know in the past that I have reported starting a workout regimen. I’ve bragged about my late night infomercial purchase of a magic...
An impossible Saturday
On a Saturday much like this one, eleven men sat broken and disappointed by circumstances beyond their control. All their hopes...
A New American Revolution
When we look back I dare say that these past weeks will go down in the history books as a pivotal time in American history. Nine...
How to Raise a Mom...
Many years ago I pitched a book idea to an editor in hopes of landing my first book contract. With outline in hand and abounding...
Too Little, Too Late?
In an effort to stay out of the cold weather, I busied myself with indoor tasks that have long been ignored. Foremost among them was...
Fresh Baked
I don’t always bake, but when I do… wait, I never bake. That’s what made my recent urge to make a mess in the kitchen a little...
Happy Pills
While this year’s flu strain is spreading like wildfire, I have very little worry that my family will fall victim. We have a secret that...
Delete That
XXanXd then hXe . . . If you are old enough, you recognize this as what writing looked like before computer processing. In those days a...
Finding a Second Wind
What do you get if you cross an insomniac, an agnostic and a dyslexic? Someone who stays up all night wondering if there really is a dog....
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