Jun 19, 2018 | Personal Blog
Charity (not her real name) was six when they burned down her village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and murdered the two mothers in her family in the year 2000. “They destroyed everything, all the animals, all the people, with a spear or a machete....
Jun 12, 2018 | Personal Blog
Who doesn’t like to discover buried treasure? Or maybe treasure chucked over the fence and lying out in the open because the park we wanted to “bury” it in was locked shut for the night? If you’re a kid moseying around any of three city...
May 25, 2018 | Personal Blog
Do you know of the Before I Die walls around the USA? I didn’t until yesterday, when I tagged along with Todd on his business trip to Asheville. (What a great excuse to see the World’s Most Fabulous Grandbaby- and spend the night away from my sweet yet...
May 18, 2018 | Personal Blog
If you read my title and have the urge to say, “When pigs fly!” then you don’t know my Baptist people. In these days when the American president refers to unauthorized immigrants-even gang members- as animals, when Israeli soldiers kill dozens of...
May 11, 2018 | Personal Blog
My friend Addison comes to a children’s walk downtown prepared! “What a good idea,” I said to her as we headed out of church to hit the trail, pointing to the toy binoculars around her neck. “Thanks,” said the second grader, fingering a...
May 4, 2018 | Personal Blog
Todd and I had noticed it on our evening walk, a perfect blue egg on the side walk. It must have fallen out of a nest in our neighbor’s crepe myrtle, dropped onto the soft ground and then rolled down the hill strewn with pine straw onto the sidewalk....