Author Archives: Ann Kirsten

Three generations of women were all laughing and gabbing in the car. We were headed to a Holiday Open House. Christmas music was on the radio, old family jokes were flying freely, and tons of love fil...

Did you know that the only female Pilgrims left alive after those first awful years of sickness and starvation were four women and two teen girls? It is said that those six women cooked the food for t...

Don't you wish you knew when certain life events were over, like the last time you would visit a place or the last time you would see someone? Maybe we would pay special attention if we knew we were e...

Fall has arrived and that means the days of open windows and doors have ended. It also means that the thermostat wars have begun! I've never known a family where everyone has the same temperature need...

I was watching a reality competition show the other night and the contestants had to cross a balance beam over water. I noticed that the men kept falling off, the single gal crawled slowly on her hand...

God and His creations are so amazing, aren't they? Each season offers us different treasures to celebrate. Winter with its bare branches, frosty windows, and snow gives me permission to stay inside, r...

Spiritual Warfare. Even the words are scary, aren't they? If we believe Hollywood (and who does?), a spiritual attack comes with scary music, smoke, and ugly creatures. In other words, an attack is ob...

I don't know about you, but I have been tired and overwhelmed lately. The weather is changing, the school year and its schedules have started, and the state of the world is weighing heavily on my mind...

I am sitting at my computer with a multitude of paint colors on my arms and under my fingernails. A few weeks ago I decided it would be a good idea to make little coins out of clay and then paint them...

Have you ever turned off all the lights in your house and then headed down the hall to your bedroom in the pitch dark? Everyone else in the house is asleep and you are alone in the dark. You take a fe...