Christmas – especially the anticipation of it – has a way of transforming a child’s fuzzy sense of time into crystal-clear precision. Come ...

In sorting through several digital Decembers I was amused to find these two very similar photos, taken two years apart: They both show ...

James, 3, Elise, 6, and Samuel, 3 months, read The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree . December 2007 I love to fill my home with books, ...

I used to subscribe to the Shel Silverstein school of thought regarding playing the organ in church. Witness his poem "HOW NOT TO HAV...

We are sowing, daily sowing Countless seeds of good and ill ... Seeds that lie unchanged, unquickened, Lifeless on the t...

One of my prized possessions is an index card smudged with butter and ink. Years ago, I don't remember when, I asked Jeff's Gran...

The perspective of details: 1. I gave Samuel ice cream. La-di-dah. Ho-hum. 2. It was a potty treat. 3. Not as a reward for produci...