1 minute, 51 seconds Saltine crackers. That’s all I had in my cupboards that seemed anything close to acceptable to feed four abandoned and hungry puppies one summer day. About half a mile into my daily walk, at the gravel crossroads between Robey’s hog farm…

1 minute, 50 seconds My college degrees were in Athletic Training and Fitness. Early in my career, I taped a lot of football players’ ankles, and over the last two and a half decades, I’ve trained many clients as a personal trainer. I particularly remember…

(2 minutes, 43 seconds) I met a new friend not long ago—one of those rare, instant connections that defies explanation. Kelly told me that her earliest memories as a little girl were of boldly approaching people, looking up into their faces, studying their features, and…

(2 minutes, 3 seconds) It would have been my mom’s 86th birthday this week. As a very young girl I sat next to my mother on Sunday mornings on the hard wooden pew of our country church. I remember two things about sitting beside her:…

(1 minute, 31 seconds) I met consistently with a thoughtful, tender-hearted, teachable sister in Christ for about three years. Fourteen years younger than me but a lover of Jesus for longer, she often introduced me as her mentor. The fact is, I will always believe…

My phone was abuzz one day last December with texts from my children asking what to wear for a concert we were all attending the following evening. Our eldest, a spiffy dresser since he was four, said I should inform his brothers that he was…

(1 minute, 54 seconds) I forgive you if you’ve never read At Home In Mitford. I’m just saying that you’ve been missing out. The protagonist, Father Tim, and his neighbor, Cynthia, who live in the fictional village of Mitford have cast spells on me that…

(APRIL 11-17, 1970)(1 minute, 56 seconds) In April 1970, fifty-five years ago, three American astronauts aboard Apollo 13 were happily and confidently mission-bound for the moon. They found themselves suddenly sideswiped by catastrophic damage to their spaceship, and in an instant their mission became one…

(1 minute, 38 seconds) One time, a kid doing donuts in a gravel parking lot kicked up rocks and shattered the back window of our SUV. The kid drove away fast. We went home with the heat on.Once, I threw a plate on the floor…

(1 minute 10 seconds) My artist friend Jane transforms blank canvases into splendor. It was my joy to tour one of her galleries recently with her as my personal guide, where I discovered the quiet power of seeing art through its creator’s eyes. I walked…