Live With Flair

My youngest daughter tells me today that her friends at school never ask her anything about herself. “I ask about them, but they don’t ask

Today I’m roller skating with my oldest daughter, and I realize that for the first time in all these years, she’s steadying me. It’s one

My friend calls from Texas to update me on her life and children. She shares this incredible story and gives me permission to share it

I leave my classroom today, and I see purple berries. In a simple moment of gratitude, I thank God for stark landscapes in late autumn

Today, I write for three hours straight. I don’t empty the dishwasher, make beds, or think about what I’m going to make for dinner.  

I love putting things in my crock pot, leaving for campus, and returning hours later to dinner. The crock pot performs this secret work all

This morning I read in Exodus 15:20: “Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her

All day, I have that feeling that something amazing is just about to happen. It actually doesn’t matter if something does happen; it’s the feeling

This morning, I consider the strange call to . . . blog. Blogging? What a weird little genre of writing! I remember in Isaiah 30:8

This morning, I rock in my old rocking chair as I read a verse from Colossians 2 about having “all the fullness” of God inside