I am a little bit annoyed in the kindest words. The Purrfect Angels are in Iraq today, dancing for our military. Probably around $70,000 of our tax money helped bring these beautiful creatures to our fathers, husbands, and sons (and w...

I know what your morning looked like. Ladies, you tried to find something to wear. You couldn’t wear a skirt because you tore a hole in your last pair of pantyhose and you don’t have time to shave your legs. You don’t have a single pair of heels that don’t kill your feet anyway. You don’t have time ...

It’s okay to cry. That is what I had to tell my children yesterday. Somewhere along the way of 11 and eight years of life, they have already learned to hold it all in - like trying to pack a month’s worth of clothes in one standard-sized suitcase. We have all done the drill - when you sit on the bag...

Have you ever had one of those seasons in life where you feel so distracted by life events that you can’t seem to concentrate on any one thing?  I think that is where I’ve been lately.  I’ve been trying to keep our family busy just to keep our minds off things.  But then my youngest c...

Something unusual happened to us recently. My husband and I were playing a quick hand of cards at the dining room table while the boys lapped up a few last minutes of free time before we were off to Wednesday night stuff at church when the doorbell rang. I sighed deeply. Who in the world could that ...

I believe in the holy catholic church…the whole world church…Anabaptist, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Conservative Protestant, Pentecostal/Charismatic, Liberal Protestant…I dare say this is why I am United Methodist. We are inclusive by nature. We practice one table (persons of other denominati...

So many times I have heard the phrase, “The husband is head of the household.” This phrase is so foreign to me, though I’ve heard it my whole life. It is foreign to me because, like so many others I know, my mother managed the household when I was growing up. We were one of those “traditional” famil...

I expect to get hammered on this one, but social justice issues make my blood boil and this morning’s news article I read lit the burner. I know this is not the first time nor is it the first church to do this, but I am dumbfounded every time it hits the news. The article can be found at

When I was a little girl, one of my favorite spring pastimes was plucking up dandelions and other beautiful blooming “weeds” from the yard and weaving their stems together for bracelets and necklaces. I grew up in a tiny farm town where everyone’s yard was a blanket of yellow and dancing honey bees....