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  • Lot in Life

    When we read Scripture, it’s easy to identify with the hero, the main character. All of the characters in the Bible are important and sometimes we miss some of the things that God is doing in the edges of stories. Lot is an example of one of those side characters. He is Abraham’s nephew, the…

  • Exodus 9: Provisions

    Exodus 9: Provisions

    The flies and gnats were harbingers of the plagues to come. Moses warns Pharaoh, then delivers a severe plague upon the livestock of the Egyptians. Horses, donkeys, camels, herds and flocks die in the fields while the animals of the Israelites survive.  One of my chickens died this fall and I was very sad; I…

  • Exodus 8: Warning

    Exodus 8: Warning

    God tells Moses to go to Pharaoh and tell him to let the Israelites leave or He will send a plague of frogs. Pharaoh refuses and God sends frogs. They are everywhere. Frogs get into in people’s homes, bedrooms and kitchens. The magicians also make frogs appear by their secret arts. Pharaoh pleads with Moses…

  • Elementary 

    Elementary 

    During my semiannual evening visit to my daughter’s classroom, her 2nd grade teacher posted the following list under “Classroom Management.” Normally, I see a list of simple behaviors like: keep your hands to yourself, or put away the art supplies. This time, on the eve of Ivy’s eighth birthday, I found the teacher’s PowerPoint slide…

  • Know & be Known

    Know & be Known

    Now that I have been published for a minute, someone has invited me to teach a group of seniors about writing memoirs. This blog notwithstanding, I’ve never published one, but I have read a ton of them.  To get your memoir published these days, you have to have one of three things; already be famous,…

  • Newsies Now

    Newsies Now

    My daughter’s theater aspirations has put me on a broadway musical journey these last few weeks. Last night, we watched the filmed stage version of Newsies from 2017, not the 1992 Christian Bale version. Le sigh!  I remembered singing and dancing, but I forgot about the proletariat struggle. If you are foggy on the story…

  • Godspell

    Godspell

    Vulture published an article last week interviewing Victor Garber, the actor who played Jesus in both the Toronto stage play and the Hollywood production of Godspell in the early 1970s. Apparently the stage cast included Eugene Levi, Martin Short, Andrea Martin, and Gilda Radner, several of the famous funny people that I grew up watching…

  • Unreliable Narrators 

    I’ve always found using self-reporting to be a tricky way of gathering information. I think my skepticism probably started with my experience with the Myers-Briggs test. It was all the rage in the 1990s. The test produced a four-letter result based on a bunch of questions to categorize people with personality traits. I had to…

  • Gift Shelf Hack

    Gift Shelf Hack

    About a decade ago, Tim and I both bought the same present for the same person. Instead of returning one, Tim suggested that we save the extra in case we need another present someday. He stuck it in the laundry room and we forgot about it until about a month later. We were headed out…

  • Living Forward 

    Living Forward 

    I just finished the audio book Yesteryear. It was a compelling tale because there’s drama and mystery experienced by the main character. I also enjoy a plot twist that exists in plain sight.  The story highlights a real issue in our society, the desire to run away. If you look online, you can find a…