Need a Mascot for 2024? Share Mine!

Need a Mascot for 2024? Share Mine!

Happy New Year, friends! A couple of weeks ago, I was rushing around, doing some late Christmas shopping when something weird happened. A little imp jumped in my basket and begged me to take him home. See him there? I was supposed to be shopping for other...
Springsteen and Our Broken Thanksgiving

Springsteen and Our Broken Thanksgiving

Last night we drove home from Raleigh in the darkness, and as I sat there, squeezed in between my husband and middle child in the front seat of Todd’s truck, trying to figure out where to put my legs, I listened to the poetry Springsteen was singing from the...
Wild Sometimes

Wild Sometimes

When you were little, what kind of person did you think God expected you to be? I wish I had shared the outlook of a little boy I know. We recently celebrated the story of Jesus’s baptism, and when the teacher asked, “I wonder where you are in the story- I wonder what...
Wayward Crayons and a Box for Us All

Wayward Crayons and a Box for Us All

There are books for children and then there are books for ALL OF US that only look like they’re for children. The Day the Crayons Came Home, Drew Daywalt’s hilarious, profound story about Duncan and his wayward crayons, is the latter, a must have for EVERYONE on...