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...

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

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...

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...

Luke and Nora, two of my grandchildren, came over and helped me bake some cookies for Peanut Butter Cookie Day (June 12th). The recipe I...

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...

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

An excerpt from my book, One Mom to Another. Dayne taught me we are all the same. As a young man, Blake completed two years of...

Sitting down to dinner versus five minutes later One night, when I couldn’t think of anything to make and didn’t have the energy to make...