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I went back to school today. Yep. This 57 year old gal is a college coed again. Wheee! Many of you celebrated with me when after 30 years as...

I recently went with 9 members of our Sunday School class on a weekend retreat. We stayed in one member’s beautiful lake house. It was a weekend to get...

“Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can — there will always come a time you will be grateful you did.” -Sarah Caldwell This quote crossed...

What are you afraid of?  You know… the kind of fear that makes your legs turn to jelly, drains the blood from your face, and sends your heart on...

It’s July. It’s hot. It’s muggy. It’s tempting to start every day with a case of the mid-summer slumps. But instead, I start every day in a December state...

I arrived at Ash Wednesday service in a state of agitation. Everywhere I’d turned on this first day of Lent, I encountered delays. Traffic jams, detours, delays, slow crawls,...

For nearly thirty years, I was a journalist. When it came to politics, what being a journalist meant to me is that while I HAD my political opinions, I...

I smiled as my feet pounded the pavement. It was good to be back out running, after days of pretty but cold weather.. or warm but rainy weather. I...

“Run for your life!” the little boy called as he dashed toward the street and away from an angry, swarming mass of yellow jackets. Their underground nest had been...

I was worn out from working at my demanding job, raising two amazing— and over-the-top energetic—daughters, running a household and volunteering at my church and the girls’ schools. I...