My after picture. The before looks like this but slightly bigger. I lost 50 lbs in 6 months and now weigh less than it says on my...

I don’t know if you’ve ever had a freight train barrelling down on you and all you can do is wait for it to hit before. You’re waiting...

I love videos of animals playing. This one from the Oregon Zoo showing animals in the snow is particularly cute. Isn’t it weird how we’ve...

Instead of doing my Christmas shopping a couple of years ago, I recorded this. It’s perfect for sharing with the kids, if they are the...

I’ve mentioned a couple of times now that I have a dissociative disorder. A derealization disorder, in fact. Which means that when my...

I am of the firm belief that you cannot be a real theologian if you have never sat in awe of a single blade of grass or wondered at the...

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love...

Such a pretty picture. Now imagine that they all hate each other. An oldie but a goody! BTW, if you read these and know exactly what I’m...

Perhaps you have heard that I have some children. Entirely more than a respectable woman ought to have, in fact. I have even heard tell...

Prior to that, it was believed that the seat of thought, emotion and will was the heart. Which actually makes sense because if you’ve...

I have met some of the coolest people while writing this blog. One of these days, I’m going to have to share the story of how God sent...

–Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Artist, architect and engineer Pass It On! Tweet Email More Print Share on Tumblr WhatsApp #quotes...

The other day I read an article which advised that the key to keeping this year’s resolutions was to set up specific targets.  Like “I...

Passivity is a discipline. In fact, sometimes I think it is the hardest discipline – particularly in a culture like ours. We humans like...

The only thing I really knew about Wheaton was that the kids who went there were freaks. The whole place was a freakshow, really. (I...

Now, this may come as a shock to some of my long time readers, but sometimes I make jokes that people thing are inappropriate. Like maybe...

This is probably the only cat video I will ever share on The Upside Down World. So you know it has to be good. Enjoy! Pass It On! Tweet...

Yesterday, I wrote about how the changing role and nature of authority in our lives demands that we change the way we parent our kids....

My mother always taught me that you can never go wrong being kinder than necessary. I believe that this is true and have tried to live my...

God loves laughter. Humor makes us laugh because it triggers delighted surprise to hear that things we fear – being alone, being unloved,...