image credit: sonoma.edu Just before my book came out last year, a well-known person who’d read it sent me a personal email and said,...

Image credit: alsglobal.com When plane passengers experience strong wind turbulence, they do what comes naturally. Some pray, some panic....

Because sometimes those with “high self esteem” have low others-esteem. Because if my girls grow up to think highly of themselves but are...

She was short and stout, and her face showed her years. Hair was tied in a scarf, and the wind blew her skirt around shoes made for those...

“This is too hard. I want to quit.” Those were the words I said to Dave last night. Even as it left my lips, I knew I didn’t mean it. I...

(This is a blog post from years ago, during an extended time of unemployment for my husband.) Yesterday. Rain, grey skies, and a phone...