Tackling life's biggest questions holiday-style.
Parenting Youngsters
You Have Learned Way Too Soon
The parenting tool bag includes a lot of other bags. But is there enough room for all a parent will carry if they cannot save their child from violence?
The Songs I Cannot Sing
I have a couple dozen posts waiting for the breath of life. A collection of thoughts. But unfinished collections get lost in dark corners, so I took what I had all along and let it shine.
How Do We Sleep? Part Two
Leave the rest up to God.
These Are Some Good Times
Taking one day at a time begins with one breath at a time. Take a deep breath before reading about this day in the life of Elissa.
When the World is Crumbling
She went out on a limb with room for only one. How would I reach her anyway?
What It’s Like to Be New
Some choices distract us from the life we, and our loved ones, had in mind. Renewal makes the way forward even better than imagined.
Look at the Test
If life is a test, then what are the right answers?
Too Far from the Sidewalk
What if instead of living from fear, we tried learning from it?
I Will Send Out an Army
I desperately wanted to be rescued, but I had to fall before I could see that my rescuer had been with me the whole time.
the well-rested mother 