Enjoying the Journey

2011. Mother's Day was coming, and I was dreading it. My first holiday as a single mom, my birthday, had been excruciating, but I d...

I can't remember the final time I bathed either of my children. For years, I scrubbed their tiny bodies with Johnson's, my...

The clay sculptures sit next to my bed where I can see them every morning and night. A dinosaur, an eagle, and a fish are among my most tre...

"Josh, look at my nails." Her eight year old fingers stretch out before her stepfather's eyes, showing off the latest manicu...

“The grand design of God in all the afflictions that befall his people is to bring them nearer and closer to himself.”  Thomas Brooks *...

I live a double-knot life, and I'm ready for that to change. You know the old double knot routine from elementary school years. Tennis s...

I recently spent time with a woman in the new hours of her worst tragedy. Her heart is still raw, the tears still flow freely, and the brain...