Sometime after his arrival the hugs stopped. I hoped it was enough to just serve him —make his meals, and showers, attend to laundry and ...

Always there is a story.  And sometimes that story lands in the hands of a story teller so masterful that all the thoughts rattling a...

Although my only experiences with bows and arrows were from playing cowboys and Indians with our cap guns and string-strung sticks, I fi...

For a person who derives great pleasure in finding the right words to express an idea, I am starting this year remarkably adrift.  Af...

Simply thanking you                                                                                                                         ...

                    “None of my failures in faithlessness proved terminal.”—                           Brennan Manning I don’t know ...

No one can show up at our door unannounced. Our dog will see to that. But when I was a kid, people came and went freely—milkmen, breadmen...

"Grant me the grace of wonder."--Brennan Manning Beetee, one of the techie characters in Catching Fire tells Katniss she has ...

Is the way you now celebrate Christmas influenced by how your family celebrated it when you were a child?  My parents made a big deal...

When I woke in the middle of the night bobbing on my mattress like a cork in high seas and saw that my feet were elevated above my head...

I laughed when I was reminded of the translation of manna this week. I could just picture the Israelites, hungry, cranky, tired, watchin...