Around Christmas time I made a batch of cocoa cookies. I had made this family recipe many times, so I was quite surprised when I bit into the finished product and it tasted like burnt play-dough. What had gone wrong? Why had my baking skills suddenly turned into a baking curse? I checked the milk…
My husband knows what it means to prepare. As a soldier in the Old Guard at Arlington National Cemetery, his days are filled with rehearsals. Every funeral, retirement or diplomatic ceremony requires precision. No matter how many similar events his company has accomplished, he will take them through the paces again and again every time….
Steve Taylor is no stranger to controversy, to the notion, as he said, Criticism comes best from within.” There was the time, during his 12-year, Grammy-nominated recording career, his album “I Predict 1990,” which opens with the satirical “I Blew Up The Clinic Real Good,” was pulled from shelves at Christian music stores. And the…
As a child I never learned how to express my anger in healthy ways. In fact, I believed anger was a bad thing, probably because that’s what I learned from my parents. If someone even hinted that I might be angry I would say, “I’m not angry. I’m just upset.” Many years later I finally…
Much of what I remember from Easter celebrations of years past come from the photo albums kept for me throughout the years. There’s the picture of my mom and me, age 4, wearing matching blue and white striped dresses standing in front of a bare tree with colorful plastic Easter eggs hanging from its branches. Or…
