I can’t believe how badly we bombed our national test. I remember flashes from watching the news broadcast with my daughter. I remember the interns, young women in suits, protecting the electoral college votes and whisking them away from the mob storming the capital. In my memory the votes...
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If I am to model my life after Him, I can take a few lessons from the pages of the Bible and see that Jesus gives plenty of examples showing the importance of a dedicated and intentional prayer time. In Luke chapters five and six we see that Jesus would withdraw away often to privatel...
Amazing. NOW with a pretty good degree of confidence I can be sure “it really canNOT get better than that!” In summer months my household eats directly from my backyard garden. I am hard pressed to get produce from my garden to the table in four hours! Truly it cannot get better t...
“Yes, but he is just a boy and the shepherd.” In those days, shepherding was one of the lowest chores, so it was delegated to the youngest child or woman in the household. Then why did God choose a shepherd boy to be the future king His people were praying to have established?
To this day, I can't follow the easy steps of line dancing—I can "short-out" The Electric Slide. During the summertime, I shined as a tomboy, while also dedicating my school term weekends to running amuck in our surrounding woods. But during summer vacation, most of my energies were...
“Some children are silenced. The pretense is protection against people and events more powerful than them. As the daughter of Allen Smiley, associate and friend to Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegel, I was raised in a family of secrets. “My father is not a household name like Siegel, partly becaus...
He’s a household name. This is our second feature. We’ve had some shorts that have done well in festivals and done a first feature that went to some cool festivals. So, reading that first draft for him, he made us take bigger swings. I think that’s a testament to the type of ...
Luckily for me, and not-so-luckily for my fragile psyche, computers were becoming a household item. I could boot up my mom’s computer and Ask Jeeves, “What is spontaneous combustion.” I think at the time I had convinced myself it wasn’t real and that it was just old people with...
Spread the word. Inspire others to refill and bring their own bottles, cups and more. Guide people to the nearest refill station. You can even ask businesses to become a refill station. Refuse straws, plastic bags and other stuff you don’t need. Maybe you want to take it a step furthe...