It is a strange and sordid tale, which is precisely why it grabs my attention. It takes place in the messy context of tragedy and…
In my lifetime I have seen the social status of cigarette smoking change drastically. Throughout my adolescence and early adult life second hand smoke was…
Like lots of moms with [a few] kids, I avoid taking them to the grocery store all at one time. They always want to ride…
Recently the Lord began to lay a burden on me for a certain group of people within several countries in a specific region in the…
According to the American Heritage Dictionary, “hope” can be defined as, “the emotional state which promotes belief in a positive outcome related to events and…
Have you ever felt like you were out of sync with God? Ecclesiastes 3:1 states, “There is a time for everything, and a season for…
I’ve been reading a little bit on anger lately (things like this and this). And it has me thinking about how the issue is addressed…
Yesterday I wrote on teamwork, but if you read the article you know that was just a different way of saying that everyone needs to…
As an educator I have noticed there are two words that prompt a general widespread panic in a classroom faster than any others. Those two…
What’s the big idea? It is an idiom that is normally used to ask the simple question, Why are you doing that? However, it carries…
pro-gres-sion [pruh-gresh–uhn] noun 1. the act of progressing; forward or onward movement. 2. a passing successively from one…
Fear is not something that happens only to the weak. All of us experience fear. In fact, if we are honest most of us know…
As wonderful as the Christmas season is and as much as I love it, I’ve been pretty jammed up lately. I’ve wanted to pull the…
I have spent several years working with middle schoolers, high schoolers, and college students. A lot of changes happen from twelve to twenty, and many…
In honor of the new year, and all of the resolutions that typically come with it, I thought a few thoughts on the whole resolution…