Ordinary Miracles

Ordinary Miracles

Harvard. I had to go to Harvard. It was the best. I was going to be on the Supreme Court — or at least a judge! My 6th-grade teacher wrote in my yearbook something about me in the Ivy League. In late middle school, my parents even took me to some swanky Harvard...
A Word for 2021

A Word for 2021

“Dear Jesus, Thank you for Mommy and Daddy and my brother and my books and the one about cats and my stuffed animals and my warm pjs and that I have bed and fuzzy blue blanket and playing with the dog today and getting to play with legos today and….”...
What You are Missing

What You are Missing

Have you ever tried to get a child to try something delicious that he has already decided he doesn’t want to eat? “Here, try this.””No. That’s yucky.””How can you say it is yucky? You haven’t tried it.”(Child...
Mary, Mary

Mary, Mary

Two Marys Becoming a mother changes your perspective on so many things. As a kid, I didn’t think much about Mary. I distinctly remember making plans with a elementary friend over our cafeteria lunches to spend the weekend at each others houses. She asked me in...