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We binge-watch episodes of our favorite shows and binge-listen to episodes of our favorite podcasts. Why not binge-read episodes in our favorite genre? In July 2021, Amazon launched Kindle Vella as a way to offer avid readers an alternative to reading news or surfing social media on their phones for short spurts of time. I’m…
We’re always praying for our kids. Right? We worry a lot. There’s so much that can go wrong in an instant. Our worry levels escalate toward the end of Spring Semester, especially with our seniors. What if they fail a class? What if something awful happens during or after a senior party? What if the…
I’ve never prayed harder than I did during my children’s teenage years. Not only did I pray for them, I prayed for my husband and me. I asked God to strengthen and instill trust in our relationships, keep our children from harm, grant all of us patience and understanding, and . . . the list…
I’m a big believer in memorizing scripture. The God-breathed messages come in handy when demons invade. Which they do. Daily. After all, Satan’s full-time job is to invade our lives and make us believe his evil lies. If he can shake our confidence in God’s goodness, he wins. Satan targets teens because they have open…
It’s the time of year when libraries tally their top ten check-outs of 2020. I thought it might be interesting to compare teen readers in the north to those in the south, so I called librarians in two states. They emailed me their young adult fiction lists THE SAME DAY. Gotta love librarians. Following are…
Last Spring, a blue bird took one look at the inside of our house and decided he wanted in. The persistent little fellow bashed into our breakfast room window hundreds of times over the course of several months, knocking himself silly several times. Why did he persist in this crazy self-harm? Why did he believe…
The Girl Scout Promise On my honor, I will try to serve God and my country, to help other people at all times, and to live by the Girl Scout Law. On this day in 1912, Juliette Gordon Low organized the first Girl Scout meeting. It took place in Savannah, in my home state. The…
Today is Ash Wednesday, the day millions of Christian believers around the world confront their own mortality and confess their sins before God. I am one of those millions. Many of us attend worship services and allow pastors to etch ash crosses on our foreheads as a public demonstration of our humility before God. In…
A spooky true story for the Halloween season: I saw a ghost when I was fifteen years old. Or, maybe it was someone pretending to be a ghost. I had begged my parents to let me accompany my English teacher and four other members of our school’s literary magazine staff to see Sylvia Plath’s “The…
Beliot College, located in Wisconsin, crawls into the minds of its freshmen each fall semester and comes up with a list of their mindsets. This freshman class, most of whom were born in 1999 and slated to graduate in 2021, is the last year of the Millennials. Here are a few of the findings Beliot…