Joining us for our rainy day lunch with friends this past Sunday were a couple Ray and I had met only a little while earlier before Sunday School. I'll call them Janet and Wally. During lunch we got to know each other the way new acquaintances usually do. We told stories about our lives. Janet ... View Post
Gliding Through Thanksgiving Week with Love
Whether traveling, hosting, driving across town to the folks', or volunteering at a Thanksgiving outreach, most of the women I know have extra responsibilities this week that they do not have every other week of the year. Some will glide through them. Others will trek step after step ... View Post
People and an Old Doughnut Shop
Last Monday I wrote about Ray's and my 70-minute-round-trip jaunt to Ralph's to pick up doughnuts. I'm afraid that Saturday trip to Ralph's started something my waistline is regretting. One day last week I got a doughnut hole after play practice, one night Ray and I got a doughnut apiece after a ... View Post
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me
For the last few days, I’ve been thinking about how I can encourage you while you homeschool this fall. I thought back to 1990, when I was a brand new homeschooler and about what I wish someone had told me. I thought about what I would do if I were homeschooling this fall of 2021. This is the ... View Post
One More Time
On the day that I published "Sweet Ann, One of My Heroines," a reader who knew Ann posted a comment thanking me for writing about "a woman as beautiful as Ann." "I miss her so much," the reader wrote. "I just wish I could talk to her one more time." The reader's words keep coming to mind. I ... View Post
Welcome to Bethany
I believe that Jesus felt extra joy when He came near to this scene. Last Sunday I shared a watercolor of the Pool of Bethesda by English painter David Roberts. This is his painting of Bethany. Bethany is near Jerusalem. It was the home village of Jesus' friends Lazarus, Mary, and Martha. ... View Post