1. The words “all clear” from Serenity’s cancer doctor. (again) 2. Public hugs from middle school grandsons. 3. A job I enjoy. 4. A job, at all. 5. Lunch with my parents. 6. The magical internet that lets me know what my children had for breakfast seconds after it pops up in their toaster. 7. [...]

A couple of weeks ago, our good friend John died. He was in his fifties and left behind a wonderful wife and two young children. He was a pillar in our community who literally built most of our town. And we are all in mourning for him. When I was growing up, our church had [...]

Here in the middle of the Missouri cornfields, it is hard for me to imagine a family actually spending the entire summer at their beach house or in their vacation cottage with multiple guest rooms. Yet, some of my blogger friends have experienced such treasure all their lives. As Felicity mentioned in a recent post, [...]

I’m on the last few chapters of my current work-in-progress, and the emotions I’m experiencing are strange. It is a little like the way I felt before one of our children got married or before the next grandchild was born. But there is also a tinge of the exhaustion that comes from remodeling a house [...]

Forty years ago, a man walked on the moon. It was truly incredible. Families everywhere gathered around their television sets to watch one giant step for mankind. And our dad missed the whole show. We lived on a farm where television reception was spotty. We could usually watch one of three channels, but to do [...]