Parenting is a challenge.
That’s true whether a hundred years ago or today.
It doesn’t help that everyone has an opinion, and social media provides a platform to share unfiltered and often ...
Rick Lauber has fond memories of one Christmas when his dad, an undemonstrative man suffering from advanced dementia, changed up the family’s Christmas Day.
Dinner was over, the turkey gone, and ...
What’s in our way is sometimes the best gift of all!
Take Connie Owen’s story, from South Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
She lost her son, Kyle, still in his 20s, in 2003. She was devastated, and the ...
Who treats you right?
Well, God, of course, but besides that?
Who’s got your back, stitches up your broken dreams, and sponges away your sorrow?
Who does good for you when you need it ...
History repeats itself, or so we’re told.
What really happens is that each generation starts from zero.
We arrive on the scene fresh-faced and full of untempered enthusiasm. The rules, the ...
Inside your Christmas tree, you’ll find the truth of what the holiday means to you.
Are your ornaments lovingly collected from special vacation spots, from seashells to ceramic-glazed ...
How to manage the Christmas season … not so easy as some might make out.
The holiday starts with Thanksgiving (or even earlier where big box stores are concerned) and hits full stride by ...
Brilliance can refer to light or intelligence.
During a solar eclipse, the sun becomes a million times dimmer for the two minutes the moon blocks out the sun.
The sun is the most brilliant object ...
During the pandemic quarantine of 2020, it seemed at times the entire world was shutting down. France, Spain, the United States … even Russia got into it.
Nonessential businesses and schools ...
A grandmother who raised her children during the Great Depression of the 1930s lived by a stringent mantra: Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.
She did that with strings and plastic ...
What’s the perfect family?
Two parents and two-point-six children? Do grandparents count?
And what if only one parent wants to participate or if there’s only one child?
Can that be a ...
Here’s a fun game we can play with children. We hold our hands with our fingers interlocked. Then we say . . .
This is the church . . .
This is the steeple . . .
Open ...
Train cars follow one another along the track.
That’s how trains work. There’s one engine, and it pulls the cars behind it.
Unhook a car, and it’s not going anywhere. Nada. It’s stuck in ...
