Month: October 2012

Words fail to describe my awe for the actions of Catholics and others in the Christian Defense Coalition. They traveled to Washington D.C. the last weekend in September to kneel down on the sidewalk outside the White House and pray while holding pro-life signs protesting President Obama’s pro-abortion HHS mandate. They knew they would be…

(Writer’s Note: The popular Pinterest website has modern homemakers viewing the pages and pages of ideas for creating meals, home decor or clothing. Months ago, my nephew’s wife saw a wreath made from acorns. The picture of the shiny autumn acorns absolutely glows in the picture she shared on her family-only website. I could see…

Spots of mildew touched the half dozen trays of slides that sat unopened for decades. Months ago the slides came to our house with a request that we scan the photos into digital format. My husband brought them to our house and left them sitting on the desk unopened and un-viewed for several more months…

“Daisy is doing it! She is going down the steps by herself. We don’t have to have the gate anymore,” my daughter called out during a recent visit at her two-story house. I walked over to the stairs. Looking down from the gate-free top, I saw our 11-month-old grandchild kneeling part way up the stairs.…

The editor is on vacation, so I filled in one of the editorial slots this week. Life After Crime and What to do About it The question continues to haunt our nation: How to mete out well earned punishment on those who break the laws while enhancing their chances for succeeding in the real world…

Children have so many things to figure out – the world around them, the meaning of words, God and their future. Elijah evidently was puzzling over his future responsibilities the day he turned to his mother and asked, “Mom, boys are supposed to take care of girls, right?” “Yes, they are.” He sat and thought…