My view of the dentist’s office changed last week. I owe my new perspective to two young mothers. The first one got me laughing. The second got me thinking. The first, an exhausted mother of four young children, said, “I’m…
Are you in that wonderful exhausting phase of life when it seems like you’re spending all of your time changing diapers and tying shoelaces and practicing spelling words and making pb&j sandwiches shaped like dinosaurs & cute little hearts? When…
A week ago Dave & I went to a reunion in our hometown. We had a great time reconnecting with 80+ “kids” that we used to hang out with at church and in a youth choir way back when we…
A little over two months ago Bernice & I moved into a new home, and half of our two-car garage is still filled with boxes that we haven’t unpacked yet. We keep saying we need to find some time to…
You’d never know it now but I used to play the piano. I actually took piano lessons for five years, from a really good teacher that my parents forked out a lot of hard earned money for until I finally…
Over the past few months my alma mater, Westmont College, sent out a few hundred #WESTMONTsaidYES packets to some very excited college applicants. Shortly thereafter, Twitter lit up with, “I just got accepted into my dream school!” and “California here…
