Story Harvest

We left on a bright beautiful June day. I beamed with excitement as I buckled my helmet and slid on my sunglasses. Earlier in the …

Church has been a mainstay in my life for years. I remember my dad parting my hair from east to west every week before church …

We just finished prayer at the end of morning worship at my small Christian elementary school when our principal appeared at the door of our …

It was a typical Friday morning at the coffee shop. The beaming yellow sun rose, making its way into the sky from the deep charcoal-gray …

During my study abroad year in Spain, six of my friends and I planned a weekend trip to Paris. Before the sun rose on a …

It was the time our family lived in my grandmother’s house. The snow that fell days before was finally starting to melt. My sister, Bella, …

I’ve never liked the idea of growing up. In fact, adulthood fell to the very bottom of my To Do list. But I knew the …

The 1957 D-17 Allis-Chalmers tractor, faded by the sun and long unserviceable from languishing for years in the old machine shed, has recently been brought …

For four-and-a-half years I struggled spiritually and emotionally. Everything seemed to be slowly falling apart. Then last August my body quickly shut down unexpectedly. I …

Not so long ago I planned a huge, weeklong party at my parents’ house. I had everything a good party needs: parents out of town, …