Untamed Adventures with Shakespeare

all the world’s a stage… From his poems and his plays to the English language and modern movies, William Shakespeare remains one of the greatest influences when it comes to creative works and other creative expressions. Personally, I find the unique words...

The Sleep of the Teens

After we had our girls, I began to wonder why it is we respond to the question regarding how we slept last night with the phrase, I slept like a baby because I came to understand that babies do not tend to sleep through the night. In fact, they are not supposed to...

It Always Comes Back to Love

If a stranger ever walks into our house in the mid-morning hours, they might think they’ve stepped into Waffle House or iHop or another popular breakfast spot. While I don’t wear a uniform, I do tend to take my place in front of our stove like a short-order cook with...

A Dash of Fun

For many years I have followed a writer and speaker, Jon Acuff, whose books and talks focus not only on setting goals, but on actually achieving them. For some of those years I participated in several of Jon’s webinars and Facebook groups and both were filled with...

What’s the Good Word?

While I may not be able to tell you whether it was sunny or raining that day, I can tell you I will never forget the day in 2017 when our 17 year old who was nine at the time asked me about the word, anti-disestablishmentarianism. Apparently the autocorrect on her...