My father had a work plan that Benjamin Franklin would have approved of. Somehow it never seemed to work out that way for me.
Memories are fleeting things. They are notoriously inexact, and yet they ...
Maybe you haven't seen the wonderful interviews over at Spaghettipie yet. But her recent interview with Brenda Nixon takes things to a...
In the Dailies - Discovering the extraordinary God in ordinary life. ...
Simple pencil sketches became charcoal drawings. From charcoal, the media evolved to pastels. But watercolor emerged as her true love. While juggling time with her kids, full-time work, widowhood,...
Most research scientists follow the academic track. Not Dr. John Medina. This graphics designer and animator turned teacher, scientist, and consultant says...
Today, 50 percent of law school graduates and 60 percent of accounting graduates are women. Twenty-five years ago, the glass ceiling was...
I was fuming. A 30-minute task was well into an hour-and-a-half, and I still hadn’t worked through all the piles. ...
Motherhood is not an achievement, it is a calling—though many of us were probably answering a different call when we became pregnant. The point is that by the time a woman trades sweet...
I lost my daughter in Barnes & Noble. ...
I sit on the floor, lean against the couch, and listen to a house wrapped in the unmistakable quiet of a child asleep. The refrigerator hum blurs into the muffled drone of rush-hour...
In the end, it is not the sails and the wind that matter most, but showing a son how to handle the world with dreams of grace and love.
The hour was late, the moon was full, and the snow out our back window glistened like a Thomas Kinkade painting. That’s when the tears began. She was a woman-child, adolescence in full...
Although we are focusing on God’s call to work, work is only one element of life. God calls us to belong to Christ in every element of our lives. Colossians 3:17 Whatever you...
In the midst of harsh treatment, the Israelites remained faithful to God’s command to be fruitful and multiply (Gen. 1:28). That entailed...
The fifth commandment says that we must respect the most basic authority among human beings, that of parents for children. To put...
In Ruth 4:13, we encounter only the second instance in the book (in addition to Ruth 1:6) where an event is expressly...
Even the most dedicated parents may face the heartbreak of wayward children.
The final section of Job contains a storybook ending in which many of Job’s fortunes are restored. Many, but not all. He...
Book 4 begins with the somber Psalm 90. “You turn us back to dust…our years come to an end like a sigh”...
