We recently bought an ancient old older gently-used car. It had clocked more than 140,000 miles, a fact which ordinarily might have made us fear that it would soon have something very terrible (and very expensive) go wrong with it. However, the car was regularly and carefully maintained: it had its scheduled services, regular oil changes, and minor issues addressed as they came…
My husband and I were attending a couples’ meeting a while back when the group’s discussion took a turn for the worse. What seemed like a simple topic at first – the division of chores – soon become more complicated as one couple delivered their story. The husband shared how he had taken out the…
Dear Future Husband, I don’t care if you can tell the difference between M&Ms and Skittles. Unless, that is, I’ve been given a sick and twisted Russian Roulette form of trail mix where the colored candies might be chocolate, or they might not be. This is just wrong, and I’ll need your help. But other…
Fifteen years ago a catastrophic event took the life of golfer Payne Steward. Headed for a Florida tournament, his plane flew beyond its destination for 5 hours before crashing in a South Dakota farm field. This tragedy resulted from a drop in air pressure. As the plane climbed in elevation, air slowly leaked out of…
His comment caught me off-guard. Since I was speaking at a youth conference about teens and technology, I figured the dad waiting to speak with me wanted to talk about his crazy texting teenager. But he didn’t come to talk about his daughter. He came to talk about his wife. You see, this man was…
