Devotional
Guarding the Fork
No, you did not read that incorrectly. I said “fork”, not “fort”. I’m often surprised to see how many of my life’s experiences have wound up on these pages over the last 18 years. Since […]
Janice Crow
Devotional
The Whatever Generation
You hear it all the time. You tell your daughter she looks nice and she says “whatever”. You tellyour teenage son to be home by 9:00 because it’s a school night and he says “whatever”. […]
Devotional
We May Start Without You
I feel cheated. Nobody ever taught us this fact in school, but from what I read, the First Thanksgiving was not a single dinner, but a three day harvest festival. THREE DAYS! I thought nothing […]
Devotional
Popcorn Testimony
It’s odd that a childhood memory is filed in my brain as both one of the best and one of the worst memories of my life. Go back with me to about age nine to […]
Devotional
Uncoordinated Faith
It all started with the Hokey Pokey in Kindergarten. I put my right foot in, I put my right foot out, I put my right foot in, but when it was time to shake it […]
Devotional
Devotional
What In Tarnation?
To borrow a catchphrase from Sophia Petrillo (Golden Girls)…”picture it”…small town Illinois, 1961…curly-haired girl in a little plaid dress, white anklets and Mary Jane shoes. This was back when a kid could walk to and […]
Janice Crow
The Old Chest
A while back, I wrote an article about an old chest beneath the creaky basement stairs at my parents’ house. I had never seen the contents of it, ever, in my entire life. When I […]
Janice Crow
POTLUCK OF OPINIONS
It all started out so well. I still don’t know how I mustered the courage to raise my hand, and the outcome has made me think twice about volunteering for anything else….. ever. It was […]
Janice Crow
What My Brother Taught Me
What My Brother Taught Me When I was a kid, I would never have thought of my brother, Bill, as a teacher. He was not a stellar student and was not particularly fond of school. […]