My husband jokes that my favorite room in our house is the laundry room...

In the spring of 1996, I had just called the top level of my phone tree for my Varsity Softball team because our tournament in Rantoul had been rained out...

I was beginning to question the accuracy of my eyesight or my housekeeping skills…or both…

As a child, I was perplexed by these people with bubbles around their heads…

My 7th graders started reading the novel, Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, recently. A hard working, fun loving family comes upon a spring in a patch of woods…

I have a very limited knowledge of farming; however, I have many friends that live on farms, work on farms, are married to farmers of all shapes and sizes. I never really considered myself much of a farmer…until the last couple of years…

How nice is it to have something green and growing in our environment, especially during these drab, end-of-winter days when we think Spring will never arrive?…

Five years ago this week, I had surgery to remove breast cancer. I had a good team of doctors and surgeons. It was more advanced than we had hoped, but we were thinking positively. At the time my kids were only 7 and 12 and I was only 47. I decided then and there that I would do everything in my power to beat cancer and be the best person I could be for my kids. The one thing missing from my plan was God and his grace…