What are the Chances?
Today marks a special event that we have been thinking about for over a year. It is the first total solar eclipse to be seen by Northeast Ohio since 1806. Another won’t be visible here until 2444. This… Read More
Adopted into Royalty
This weekend Nora and I were playing dolls, and their conversation went something like this… “My friend made fun of me out on recess today. She called me names and made me cry,” my doll said. In a… Read More
A Standing Ovation
This week Dustin and I watched the 2022 Home Run Derby where Albert Pujols participated one last time before his retirement from Major League Baseball. He has played in the league for over 20 years and has many… Read More
Plenty of Room at the Table
My mom, Ridley and I went to Amish Country today. We had a lovely time shopping and having lunch. We stopped at Walnut Creek Furniture, one of my mom’s favorite stores. The minute we walked in the store… Read More
If Not For the Storms
In 2007 I was diagnosed with Graves Disease. It sounds like a death sentence, but it’s not. It is named after the Irish doctor who discovered it, Robert Graves. It’s an autoimmune disease in which your body attacks… Read More
Good Guys and Bad Guys
Yesterday in Sunday school the kids watched a video about Easter. Jesus is with his disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane as a mob from the chief priests and elders come to arrest him. Peter, trying to defend… Read More
Jesus Take the Handlebars
Ridley often arrives at his grandma’s to find his older cousins have brought him toys and books they do not want anymore. A few weeks ago he found a toddler-sized two wheel bike with training wheels. He was… Read More
Patiently Waiting
As many of your know, my father-in-law passed away this Christmas Eve after a yearlong battle with cancer. The way he and my mother-in-law chose to worship and glorify God through their pain was truly an inspiration and… Read More