Celebrate National Veggie Burger Day!

“If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.” I heard this a lot growing up. And as much as I agree with this age-old adv...

Borrowing one of my favorite lines from an “American Idol” contestant cut from the competition: “What just happened here?” That is the qu...

My son Michael tells me, “You are the best mom I ever had.” Every time he tells me that, I smile. I’ve thought a lot about that sentence....

For this list I have excluded religious texts, plays, short stories, and books from a series. These five books meet a certain criterion I...

“...I can watch elephants for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange such as mow grass with its...

The following story is told from the Draw a Bird Day Website "In 1943, Dorie Cooper was a 7-year-old living in England. Her mother took h...

My dad was Mr. Ewing, the art teacher. He would visit all the schools in the district, bringing fun projects to our classes for once-a-we...

“Without courage, we cannot tell our stories.”[1] It was hard not to notice the lack of noise as I sat in the exam room before the doctor...

Me to my child: “I love you.” Child: smile Me: “Do you know why I love you?” Child: “Why?” Me: “Because you are you.” This was a common c...

Who cares about the toothpaste tube or the toilet seat? The biggest disagreements in my marriage have been over things that actually matt...

An excerpt from One Mom to Another: Be Kind to Yourself, Embrace the Good, Find Joy in the Everyday. A few years ago, my daughter Stephan...

Rich and I plant zucchini every year. It's the one crop we always know will produce. Every year, regardless of where we live, the type of...

Rich loves corny jokes. For example, when we are driving anywhere with our children and pass by a cemetery: “That’s a really nice cemeter...

I committed this poem to memory when I was going through a particularly hard time in life and it has stayed with me for almost 30 years. ...

It’s here: the end of the school year! The last month of the school year is not unlike the last month of pregnancy. Women are tired, worn...

(excerpt from "One Mom to Another"- A Mighty Work.) I once gave a talk in a women’s conference with the theme, “With Joy Wend Your Way.” ...

When I was in the sixth grade, I fell in love. The problem was, the boy I loved was not similarly smitten with me! No matter what I did, ...

We were driving from Ohio to Indiana in a blinding rainstorm. Rich had a new job and I was driving the children to meet him and look for ...

“I’M BEAUTIFUL INSIDE!” I turned my head sharply and read these words boldly printed on top of a For Sale sign in front of a house. I tho...