Live With Flair

I’m walking through campus to my office with my head looking down into the concrete.  I’m deep in thought about something I can’t recall.  I

The whole family just erupts this morning.  We can’t control ourselves!  We’re all fighting, and one child cries enormous tears while another screams, “You just

My daughter wants to make real perfume from nature for her science project this year.  I’m learning that she wants to discover the essence of

Students arrive to class with earphones deep in their ears. “What are you listening to?” I ask one. “What?” he calls back.  I point to

I’m reading Psalm 1 (where it says whatever we do will prosper), and I notice all the things I wanted God to “prosper” in my

Yesterday, the neighborhood children run in and out of my house, delighting in the unseasonably warm weather.  Some are barefoot and trying to skate on

I learn from the Italian Mama about an oak tree in our neighborhood that’s over 200 years old.  It’s a ten minute stroll from my

This morning after church, we visit the grocery store and let our daughters run to the very back where all the bins of “penny candy”

This week, I find a quote from Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. Borges states, “Every destiny, however long and complicated, essentially boils down to a

This week, I learn that sometimes fear and imagining the worst motivates folks more than hope.  Instead of putting up photos of your dream life,