Just keep trying
I am on the struggle bus lately when it comes to food. I’ve been doing all the right things – keeping a food journal, cutting up the veggies as soon as they enter the house, buying bigger underwear. I even started going to a dietician because I wanted advice on how to properly feed my
Hope for the wait
Any day now, I am certain the producers of Wheel of Fortune will be calling. I’m so certain that I continue to hone my skills by solving puzzles on their game show app. If you see me looking at my phone, I’m not on Instagram, I’m on “The Wheel”. There is one puzzle though, I
I am who you say I am
I was playing pickleball this morning when I heard someone on another court say, “She’s the coach’s wife.” A quick glance confirmed I was the only coach’s wife in the vicinity so I yelled across three courts, “I can hear you!” I just wanted to make sure they knew their voices were carrying before they
You, Me and Him. (The end of my sabbatical.)
When I decided to take a sabbatical at the beginning of the summer, I knew I’d be back, but I had no idea when. Or how. How could I possibly pour into others about the goodness of God and people when my faith in both were on shaky ground? Let me back up and get
Thank you for 10 years of sharing kindness through my column
I met Tom at the gym 10 years ago. In his mid-70s, he was bold enough to say what he thought. “Young lady, you’re the one writing that new column in the paper, right? ‘Kindness is Contagious’? I want to tell you I’m praying for you. When you do God’s work, the enemy takes notice.
Kindergarten kindness goes round and round
When my son was in kindergarten, his teacher allowed me to sneak into the classroom once a week to talk about kindness with the kids. It was the most difficult and delightful experience I’ve ever had. Any discussion about a kind character in a book usually spiraled into a goldfish dying or a loose tooth.
Kindness makes the ordinary extraordinary
Isn’t it fun when we’re just going about life as usual and kindness steps in to make the day special? That happened recently to a woman in Wisconsin who shared this story with me. “It was a regular grocery shopping Tuesday. Alaina, our 5-year-old, was taking a break from virtual kindergarten and tagging along. “As
