This week my middle daughter's 5th grade class is having a technology-free week at school. They're discussing how technology is a wonderful servant but a terrible master. On Monday they had "FaceTime" where they paired up with a partner, sat up straight, looked him/her in the eye, and discussed what … [Read more...]
Road trip
By the time this posts I'll be en route to Nashville for a writing conference. Even just typing that sentence makes me feel a little presumptuous. Wouldn't my time be better spent at a parenting conference? A cooking class? A spiritual retreat? Maybe so. But it's been almost ten years {my oldest two … [Read more...]
Come alive
A couple of years ago on a laid-back Saturday morning, our girls stumbled upon a movie called Dolphin Tale. The movie dramatizes the true story of a dolphin, named Winter, who is rescued and rehabilitated after getting caught in a fishing net off the coast of Florida and subsequently losing her … [Read more...]
Broken but better
My right hand has a slight deformity to it. When I was in the 4th grade I was on a softball team practicing for an upcoming tournament. I was a pitcher, but one warm summer evening we were using a pitching machine for batting practice and I stood in at shortstop. One of our best batters came up to … [Read more...]
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