I guess I was born trying to be perfect.  It wasn't something my parents pushed on me.  They didn't have to.  I wanted to be the fas...

In today's culture, winning is best.  In the words of Ricky Bobby, "If you aren't first, you're last." I started a Bib...

T his summer has gotten off to a slow start... Cloudy skies, cooler than average temperatures, and rainy afternoons don't make for the b...

A few weeks ago I had the honor of sharing part of the Christmas story with the youngest attendees at church.  While a bit ill prepared, I h...

When I was in college, my expository writing professor said that sometimes you cannot write about things that leave you emotional because yo...

When I first started teaching in the fall of 2007, I drove about 20 minutes to work.  Every day I would play the same Nichole Nordeman song ...

This afternoon I sat in the parking lot at my little girls' daycare and sobbed.  Like hysterical, crazy woman ugly cried.  I hid behind ...