Parenting is not for the faint of heart. Or soul. Or body. Especially if one has boys. This past Saturday night is a case in point. Brace yourself. My husband was away at a campout with the two oldest, supervising an airsoft gun war. That sounds dangerous. I’m more than happy to stay safe at […]
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Odds are…a church won’t take a chance on doing something oddly different in their services. Something that requires hundreds of image-oriented people to be quiet and listen, with nothing to see, for TEN MINUTES. But after a brainstorming session with some creative minds in July, the leaders at Fellowship Bible Church in Nashville decided it was a
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It’s 9:30 at night. Cold. Snow on the ground. We’ve driven 12 hours for this moment. We turn our lights off, pull over to the side of the road and park. Sneak down the street with a big, black duffle bag. I realize we look quite suspicious, but I assure you, this is an altruistic
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Breast cancer is scary. Waaaay scarier than ghosts or goblins. This fall marks the 5-year anniversary of my positive test for the genetic mutation for breast and ovarian cancer, BRCA2, and my preventative double mastectomy. And as we wrap up Breast Cancer Awareness month today, I want to pay tribute to my friends and family
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The Symphony: A melding of offered talents and glorious sounds that together create something transcendent. I’m usually just a watcher from the cheaper seats, a taker-inner, letting the music move me, a muse for my creative musings. I love it. But I’ve never gone behind the curtain. Never been backstage, or onstage. I only see the finished
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I STAND FOR THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN. The rights of women. Everywhere. Every age. Every ethnicity.
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A few nights ago, a neighbor boy gave a box turtle to one of my sons. I suppose his mom said he couldn’t keep him and he figured my son would have more luck at our house, The House of Many Pets. However, contrary to popular opinion, I DO NOT keep every stray animal that
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Today is Labor Day. The day we all celebrate our ability to work by taking a break. But a few keep right on working. Like Autumn, my courageous friend who is working at a safe house right now in the Middle East, using dance therapy to help girls experience freedom who had been trafficked as sex slaves
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My son raised his hand. “I think our mascot should be the narwhal.” “The narwhal? Now that’s an interesting idea,” Kari Miller, the new principal of a future local middle school, smiled. I try to picture a logo sporting a whale with a 9-foot overgrown canine tooth and realize there’s a risk to being an inclusive leader-
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Have you ever felt like you’ve been abandoned? Sure that no one gave a rip about you Convinced you didn’t belong Unloved On your own…
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