I wish I had taken a picture of my first car. But back then, I didn't have a camera. That wasn't as important to me as me owning my own...

Words will never come close to describing the gut-wrenching, deep pain I have felt these past two weeks after saying goodbye to my Gracie....

Between the lines, I imagine what it must have been like for the first Adam and Eve in the garden – before the fall ushered sin into the...

I remember an Easter not so long ago (it was yesterday, indeed), when poor as we were, I received the richest of memories on the day we...

Have you ever had those days when the only word to describe what you feel would be blah? I know I have. These first days of spring have...

In 2001 I rode the train to Chicago with my boyfriend who a year later became my husband. Anyway. About the experience. The train ride....

It was unusually warm for a day in late April. Probably around 80 degrees. I sat on the road playing in the dirt and waiting for Dad to...

#SnapshotEscapism Their relationship had started on the wrong foot. Mikka was one day shy of sixteen the day Carlton approached her in...

Yesterday my lower back hurt pretty severely. Walking was an effort. But I find it better to stay somewhat active than sit with my feet...

Winds whistled through the windows of our four-room house, and I shivered beneath the thin blanket, unable to get back to sleep. It was...

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We are sinners from the moment we are born. It is in our DNA to put ourselves above all else. It's all about me. We sin constantly...

"What's this talk of a UFO?" Madison wiped sticky hands down the sides of her white cotton shorts while watching her mother frantically...

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She'd got the call just as she was walking out the door for Sunday School. Her mother needed her. "I've somehow got my walker stuck...

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1. People who drive alone yet wear a mask. 2. Medications that have child-proof caps. Allow me to address the elderly here - the kids...