If at First You Don’t Figure It Out…

I don’t know about you, but there are times I’m in the middle of what seems like it should be a simple project and I find myself simply stymied. My best efforts yield nothing more than additional annoyance at best because I cannot figure out the solution. In those...

The Wholeness of Wellness

Is there anything better than when the mantle of sickness finally begins to lift? After nasal congestion and stuffed-up noses that make sleeping feel impossible and the sapping of energy from several days of feeling less than 100 percent, when the symptoms that have...

Love in Health & Colds

If you’re married, or if you have ever watched a movie in which two people get married, you are probably familiar with wedding vows, including the line to love one another in sickness and in health. Now, while some vows have morphed over the years, some being dropped...

Story & Characters

As a writer, one of the things I appreciate deeply about my teenagers is their creative writing focus; I love the stories they dabble in and the characters they develop. Those characters take on roles in their stories and in their art, whether on the iPad or in...

The Paths We Get to Travel

Yesterday, as we watched Bohemian Rhapsody for the second time, my oldest teenager pointed out how often I say the scene playing is my favorite—”Oh, this is my favorite scene in the movie,” I said over, and over, and over again. It’s a thing I tend to do apparently,...