Tag Archives: Relationships

It began almost thirty years ago in Oregon, and as soon as I heard about it I was hooked. In certain seaside towns, "Glass Fairies" dropped beautiful blown glass balls or "floats" on the beaches for b...

The week leading up to my daughter Penny's first taekwondo tournament was full of excitement. She talked about it constantly-her uniform, her belt, what it might feel like to step onto the mat in fron...

The headline jumped out at me: "Signs of a Christian Narcissist". What? How can that be? Aren't all believers changed and wonderful people? The short answer is no. Oh, how that confused me as a new be...

No one really tells you that making friends in your late 30's and early 40's can feel... complicated. In your twenties, friendship happens almost by accident. You live near each other. You work side b...

We have a joke in our family. One of those things that didn't start out as being funny, but as the years have passed, I can finally see the humor in it. I became the family matriarch at quite a young ...

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...

"When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they lack wisdom and behave like fools." 2 Corinthians 10:12 To paraphrase 2 Corinthians, those that compare themsel...

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...

Every November, we celebrate Adoption Awareness Month - a time to honor the brave stories of families who are built in all kinds of ways. It's also a month to recognize the countless children still wa...

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...