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Happy Valentine’s Day! On Valentine’s Day in our house, we always celebrate with little bags of chocolate and a small gift, and we traditionally eat

This morning I hear from a wise older woman, Ceil, who has learned how to trust God through difficult circumstances. After many years of walking

Every so often, the strange thought overcomes me that I’m too old and irrelevant to work with college students. This semester, I know I’m not

Last night I learn a new word: gimcrack. Gimcrack! It’s fun to say. It means “flimsy or poorly made but deceptively attractive” as in the

In one of our online class discussions, I ask students the same question Mary Pipher poses in her chapter “What You Alone Can Say” from

This morning I read in Zechariah 4:10 the question, “Who dares despise the day of small things?” It serves as a warning and admonition to

In one of the assignments for our storytelling unit, students compose an I am From poem based loosely on George Ella Lyon’s “Where I’m From”.

This morning, the fluffiest snowflakes fell in Central Pennsylvania. My husband said, “We have snowflakes the size of hamsters.” I smiled about that all morning.

Today I reminded my daughter that she’s not yet arrived at certain destinations she’s hoping for. It’s a time of patience, of transition to the

I thought my great maturity would take over when I heard that a friend’s daughter had full scholarships to two different schools and more on