Tag Archives: hope

Why two of them? They were identical twins, and to love one was to love the other. Basketball player tall. Pretty-man faces. Shock of black …

It was another wintry day. My preschool-aged daughter and I were grocery shopping. We had rushed into the store from the car to stay as …

“The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it.” —John 1:5

I was having trouble falling asleep last night. So I tried to trick my racing thoughts into making sense. This is my poem for those …

“Look, if you sold a few sparrows, how much money would you get? A copper coin apiece, perhaps? And yet your Father in heaven knows …

Do you sometimes feel like you’re a character in the movie Groundhog Day during the troubling days of this Pandemic? Many people say they do. …

Dear God: My heart was so touched at Lupe’s funeral last night. The whole service was in Spanish—and I didn’t understand a word. Most of …

When I was a junior in high school, I went through a minor case of depression. It started when I dropped out of my super-tough …

There’s a saying among would-be criminals and law enforcement officials alike that gets shared around. It goes like this, “Do the crime, serve the time.” …

One bitterly cold February day driving from Wisconsin to Georgia, feeling dispirited by all the dissension and even downright vitriol in the country, I pulled …