Why not sit back and enjoy some rest? After all that work, isn’t it deserved? The Israelites were warned about lagging behind ...

My book baby is out in the world. Let the heart palpataions begin. We've all been there...

The New Year is a time when we try to gain a bigger picture, but how many of us set our resolutions on a whim? Maybe God has a broader plan?

A gallon of Redbull doesn't compare to Christmas anticipation, but are we looking for the return of God the same way?

Less than a month before The Duke's Refuge launches!

I should have called the Guinness Book of World Records. I'd unintentionally made the longest human snow angel.

The ratio of embattled warriors to men, women, and children stood 2 to 1.

You know you're under a book deadline when... Your husband's putting spray-can whipped cream in his coffee because we ran out of creamer four days ago.

Danger doesn’t find my kids. They seem to seek it out...

I have a love/hate relationship with fall. It's beautiful yet stressful. New Englanders, like squirrels storing nuts, know we have a limited time to finish projects before we’re blasted with piles of snow.

Someone thought a great gift would be a remote-control tarantula for my boys.

Cue the bad boy music, swagger walk, and pyrotechnics. I may not be Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in Terminator...

There’s an underlying fear we can miss our potential. But is that possible?

My husband had left his wallet at home. Usually, it wouldn’t have been a big deal, but we were standing in the airport

Laughing actually hurts. Contracting of the core muscles causes us pain, but our body compensates by sending out endorphins to mask the ache.

Bickering among friends can be deadly. It might not be a lion-gnaws-on-your-bones type of deadly, but it inevitably kills the friendship.

If we're not on our guard, we'll eventually coast to a stop and that's when the trap is set.

I was petrified of a bully on my bus. She looked tough, acted tough, and sounded tough. She dressed in all black and always sat in the back of the bus.

Nothing can be more horrifying then carrying your tray across a crowded school lunchroom when you don’t know anyone.

We may go back to safe ground, or take a step back to gain perspective. But we are not supposed to stay there.