Live With Flair

At the start of each month, I often go back to the Psalms for encouragement and refreshment. These verses especially encouraged me these last few

Today I thought more about what it means to accept people unconditionally, to believe the best about them, and fight a critical spirit. When I

It’s a gorgeous day in Pennsylvania. It’s finally time to bring out my solar-powered fountain! I read in my E. Stanley Jones devotional this morning

I taught my last two classes of the semester today. Next week I’ll grade final papers and then begin my wonderful transition to summer work.

For our last day of class, I ask students to bring in a paragraph to read aloud the writing they feel most proud of from

This semester, I’ve learned how to change my classroom and office hours to accommodate students with various registered disabilities. I’m also learning never to assume

Sometimes life comes at you so quickly that you don’t have time to think. You find yourself in a position to answer “yes” or “no”

I move my potted seedlings (which are now rather large and leafy) out to the patio to harden them. I won’t plant them in the

I remember the first time we took our girls to New York City. We still laugh about how, of all the fun experiences that cost

I hear a Christian speaker—Dr. Tim Muelhoff—talk about why difficult things happen to us. He declares that God loves us too much to “allow us