Month: June 2015
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Cool caves for the summer
With temperatures that hover between 60 and 70 degrees, caves make great summer vacation expeditions. The damp, quiet wraps tourists in a calm that can not be found on the earth’s surface under the heat of the sun. I discovered the wonder of caves on a hot summer day in my early 20s. Pictures from…
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Four-year-old donates her body to science, for a couple hours
Wires sprout in all directions from her curly blonde hair. Beneath them, Daisy’s big blue eyes stare pensively at the camera. Another year has passed and again there sat my granddaughter in child-sized hospital scrubs undergoing a very thorough physical. What does this child, who celebrated her fourth birthday recently, need from the medical world…
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A complete set
joan’s column for 6-3 The family did not feel quite complete to my daughter, Sharon, and her husband, Jacob. She wrote the following about their prayers and decision. We prayed about how to grow our family: either with more biological children or foster care/adoption. I’ve prayed that we would be unified in our decision because…