We missed celebrating Mardi Gras last week. I was getting over a wicked case of food poisoning and not up to celebrating anything besides staying out of the bathroom. You don’t hear of a lot of people commemorating Fat Tuesday around here, unlike when we lived along the Gulf Coast. Down there it’s a huge [...]

“Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.” ~Bruce Barton We had to bid farewell to a friend a couple of weeks ago. Rita Scheu was a kind lady, a good neighbor, a loving mom and wife. She bravely battled breast cancer [...]

Have you fallen victim to the stomach bug yet? There’s a nasty one going around our church and another circle of friends. So far, we haven’t caught it. But knowing it’s out there leaves me worried that our turn is coming. It makes me want to build a Clorox-filled moat around the house and pickle [...]

So the first great snowfall of 2010 has come and gone, and I daresay most of us survived. My yard looked like Jack Frost gently sneezed across it. The most annoying thing about this storm was wrangling hyper, snow-hungry kids on Thursday, and dealing with their disappointment Friday morning when they realized we hadn’t gotten [...]

‘Tis five days til Christmas, and here in my house I’m sporting milk stains all over my blouse. The baby is crying, he’s clinging to me But of course, he’s an infant—that’s how it should be.