The birthing center anchors the entrance to the town; a veteran’s cemetery marks its end. Dunkin Donuts, a market, bar, pizzeria, and smat...

I was so mesmerized by the black swirling rain that obliterated my view of the pool fifteen feet away, that I didn’t even think “tornado’ ...

  There are those times when fear nails you to the spot, clips your lips shut, and freezes all your otherwise honorable actions. Sometimes t...

 Back in the days when we didn’t know any better, my siblings and I stuck our tongues out at each other and hurled childish names designed t...

Okay, so we’re not talking a multimillion dollar standoff between a rare worm and an oil pipeline, or a fly and a building complex, cases ...

That’s what a recent blog for the Center for Disease Control did to get the attention of those of us preparedness slackers who think eithe...

As a child, I delighted in playing with my grandmother’s stereoscope (a vintage Viewmaster of sorts). I’d place the sepia-colored, double-im...

“Being nibbled to death by a duck.” I don’t remember where I read this, but it is an image from some Bible study that has stuck in my mind o...

The other day I got myself in such a dither, I had to take a time out. It was my last chance to make a revision in my manuscript before its...

Did you ever worry that you made a terrible decision and wondered if God would ever make it right? I did. My last three years read like a ...

That wall had annoyed me since the day we moved in, particularly because it blocked the light from the one large window on the other end ...