This is the time of year when parenting magazines urge frazzled parents to create family traditions with their children. Anything but Crafts The articles are very helpful with detailed instructions

My family and I are struggling to absorb and find room for all the stuff that arrived with Christmas. I actually lie awake at night wondering where I am going

On a cold, foggy Saturday night, my daughter, Lauren, has her boyfriend, the Tall One, over for pizza and a movie. The kids are probably not that thrilled to spend

“You sure got a pretty little girl, there,” complimented a passerby in the Penney’s parking lot. “He’s a boy,” I tartly replied and immediately regretted.  It wasn’t the well-meaning stranger’s

All of my gel pens are gone. My daughter, Lauren, must have snatched them up as she hastily packed yesterday for her junior year at Thomas Aquinas College. As a

My daughter eats eel! I knew there there would be changes for my daughter in college, but this? This is the girl who when she was eight I had to

“Kathy, why don’t you and the kids come to our church’s Harvest Festival?” asked my Evangelical friend. “There will be a bonfire, hay rides, and candy for the kids.” It

Circa 1 A.D. (give or take a few years) If the Christmas story is true, God bursts into human history. Oh, he had participated in history before, many times. But