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I love Bear Grylls. Do you love Bear Grylls? A lot of people love Bear Grylls. David and I have watched LOTS of his shows about survival in all kinds of conditions. How to catch a skunk, how to eat things you catch (including a skunk), how to sanitize your own urine to drink (ick!),Continue reading “Crossings”

  One day, life is good. The sun is shining. The early Spring birds are singing. Your job is going great. Your family is getting along. Your husband (or wife) made you breakfast in bed. Your youngest told you he loved you for the first time last night. Then suddenly, something happens in our worldContinue reading “When Fear Overwhelms”

One day, life is good. The sun is shining. The early Spring birds are singing. Your job is going great. Your family is getting along. Your husband (or wife) made you breakfast in bed. Your youngest told you he loved you for the first time last night. Then suddenly, something happens in our world thatContinue reading “When Fear Overwhelms”

  I had a whole other blog written to send out on the subject of New Year Resolutions…then God grabbed my ear and redirected me down a whole other road. I’ve made basically the same resolutions every New Year since I was probably in my early 20’s. I’m not gonna tell you what they are,Continue reading “Happy Re-New Year”

I recently watched a video of an awesome song done by one of my most favoritest singers. She was talking about pride and humility…two of the trickiest character qualities to deal with. You can’t have the latter without the lack of the former. “Pride comes before a fall,” Proverbs 16:18 says. I love how TheContinue reading “s t a y l o w”

From a post today by Jon Acuff: “Do you know why strangers rage at each other online and are so quick to be angry and offended these days? Because their passion has no other outlet. When you refuse to deal in joy, you don’t quit being emotional; you just funnel all that fury somewhere else.Continue reading “WHY TROLLS TROLL”

How old are you? Do you remember “graduating” from something? Man, I sure do. On the day of my 8th-grade “graduation,” I remember being asked, and completely privileged (to a degree), to play “Pomp and Circumstance” on the piano as my 8th grade compatriots sashayed across the stage, as it were. On the day ofContinue reading “Graduations”

(I wrote this blog on Earth Day 2008…eleven years ago. Hard to believe. Not much has changed.) Today is Earth Day, 2008. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about this idea of “protecting” and “taking care of” the earth. I have heard the phrase “going green” ad nauseam. Every other commercial reminds us how rottenContinue reading “Earth Day 2019”

Look at where a good bit of your TIME, your TREASURE and your TALENT are spent. Do you spend a lot of your TIME on your phone, looking at social media or perusing Pinterest? Do you spend a lot of your TIME on your couch, watching daytime tv or binge-watching This is Us? Do youContinue reading “Where’s Your Heart?”

David and I were watching a news show a while back, on which they featured a woman from the University of California Berkeley, a biologist, who is developing a new genome editing tool called CRISPR (“clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats”)…a tool that could transform the field of biology.            Continue reading “crispr”