“I don’t understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine’s Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me

Or it was difficult, for this girl, at least, for a very long time.  But I’m learning.  Thank God, I’m learning. If you’ve been reading the blog for any length

Boys will try anything.  They will jump down onto a trampoline from leafy heights where the air is thin.  They will scale tall, rickety ladders to reach the haymow.  Then

It was back in our newly-married days that I answered an ad in the local newspaper.  A family was looking for a part-time babysitter for their two children, a boy (5)

Remember now, he’s signed up to sing a solo, the first one ever in an official capacity, and the nerves are getting to him just a bit.  So he said,

It was a Negro spiritual, “Oh Happy Day” that spoke to me.  In the movie, it spoke to Penny, too, coming at a low point in her life when going

It was on her face, that brave little mother bent over the keyboard just earlier today.  Beauty, I saw there, and peace resting on her visage. Son number two and

In any marriage there are hitches and glitches that can cause frustration and migraines for both parties. We have been married for 20 years now, and an ongoing issue for