No matter how I squirm and squiggle, writhe and wriggle with fear and excitement tangled up in near-equal parts, they won’t leave me alone, those dreams.  And then God Almighty

It was the sixth-grade concert, and our own Boy Three was just there to the right, third row up, standing stiffly amidst a sea of his classmates.  That green shirt

He weighed 8 pounds 10 ounces, arriving on a wintry Indiana day that blew in on a frigid north wind.  Blinking sleepily from beneath a cap of dark hair with those startling blue eyes, his

Grounds for Insanity column

I feel disoriented without the familiar items at my fingertips; the dogeared Bible with both covers long since gone.  The daily devotional, also with one cover missing, that nourishes me often.  The

It’s lovely today, this Northern Indiana fall morning.  On my morning drive, I note that the Artist has been hard at work, painting the maples up and down the street

If you’ve seen Cheaper by the Dozen, you’ll know what I mean by the lumps-in-the-mattress scenario.  You know, the scene where Steve Martin is pounding the ‘lumps’ out of the

Just this morning, I received an email from an uncle in Kansas.  My cousin, Twila, has been suffering numerous physical challenges in recent months and years, having recently undergone surgery on