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The picture and letter below were sent to me through email. This amazing story, told by a mother, demonstrates that the world continues...

I wrote the post below for my granddaughter who is a young teenager. Sweet granddaughter, I realize that you struggle with shyness and...

In honor of Mother’s Day, I share a story that my mother’s mother told me. Grandmother Glover, my mother’s mother, was 87 years old when...

Does it seem like sometimes life dumps trouble all over you? Do you occasionally think that life is definitely NOT fair? You are right!...

This post was written for my teenage granddaughter. Even as I remember the frightening aspects of growing up, I realize that life is full...

The amount of pain a person causes is a measure of the pain that an individual holds inside. That means, that when a friend says unkind...

When I respond to your problem by asking you to write a gratitude list, you must think I’m strange. The suggestion comes out of my own...

Everyone who strives to help beginning readers wants to use beneficial practices. Sometimes, the intuitive response to an unknown word...

Although we only see the children who live out of town on rare occasions, the time with them feels sweet and special when we can be...

Grandpa and I always counted ourselves fortunate that we enjoyed the many hours Lane, Dalton, and their friend, Derek spent with us as...

Have you noticed that death often fosters feelings of sadness even while holding tightly to humor? After a memorial for John Long, a...

Last week, I shared a college experience with my teenage partner, John Long. Thoughts of working with John triggered a second Oklahoma...

That’s quire a milestone for anyone. All who know and love you realize our lives get better the longer you stick around. I wish you many...

For most of his 70 years, Chris worked to make a positive difference. He definitely did all he could to help anyone who crossed his path....

For some time, Chris and I have worried about our forgetfulness. A few weeks ago, a friend suggested that we get screened for Dementia...

Yesterday, for birthday number 78, some dear, special friends and relatives joined me to feed horses and see new baby animals. We enjoyed...

I treasure memories of my dad, Watters Farnum, as a plain-spoken, somewhat uneducated cowboy who spoke grammatically incorrect English...

On a recent Sunday morning, we found the following article, from “A Bigger Table” by John Pavlovitz in our church bulletin. “I really...

My conversational Spanish is definitely lopsided. As I stumble through what I hope will be a reasonable statement, my baffled listeners...

Even though we all know that I am much too young to be a great-grandmother, that’s exactly what is going to occur. At the end of May, a...