Faith & Inspiration |
Thanksgiving dinner had just ended when someone asked if I was
going to Target’s 10 p.m. sale. I wasn’t, but the irony slapped me
hard. Here we had been,
Faith & Inspiration |
In the wake of the election, how are your friendships faring? If
you’re anything like the people I’ve spoken to in the last week,
your answer is, “Not…
Parenting |
Last week I made the mistake of Facebooking my surprise at learning
that the kindergartners at the elementary school across the street
were participating in…
Education |
After enduring several frustrating decades of wildly ineffective
nuevo-education, those who aren’t so embedded in a faltering system
that they’ve lost the…
Parenting |
Do you have a child who is behind in school, who can’t seem to get
his homework completed on time, who hates to do math? Have you ever
been tempted to come…
Family |
Like in the nightmare, his mother found him in his bedroom, he whom
she bore in her stretched-out body for most of a year. Dead and
shattered, just months…
Education |
School jitters. They aren't just for children anymore, I'm
discovering. This year, after 16 years of homeschooling, I'm
putting two of my boys in school. When…
Sports |
I don't know about you, but my family has stayed up way too late
the past two weeks watching the Olympics. The kids are riveted on
Lolo and Michael P. and…
Faith & Inspiration |
There's a wonderful scene in the movie
Joyful Noise
, where the mother (played by Queen Latifah) sits at the piano in
the darkened sanctuary of her church. Up to…
Family |
I read a wonderful blog post this week by one of my fellow Patheos
peeps, Zeke Pipher, about the fallacy of formulaic parenting.
According to Zeke, the…
Faith & Inspiration |
The other day my 13-year-old daughter bought a full-length mirror
for her room. She set it up in her closet and we all went in to
admire it. Then I screamed,
Family |
Are you a mother with a bratty kid? Do you feed him junk food? Is
he overweight? If so, according to a
Today
Moms survey, you already have three strikes against…
