Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
Since we began homeschooling 32 years ago, we have witnessed numerous couples go through the break-up of their marriages. The specific stresses inherent to a homeschooling family coupled with the reality of a husband working the equivalent of two jobs to enable the wife to stay home to teach can […]
Every morning when I use my L’Oreal Lasting Plum lipliner, I have to trace around a little scar on the right side of my top lip. I got that scar almost 50 years ago, when a 6-year-old boy in my neighborhood threw a rock at me and split my lip. […]
Two days ago, I was privileged to attend the birth of the 4th son of a homeschooling friend. She had requested an epidural sometime midway through the morning, but the anesthesiologist was tied up in the operating room, so my friend was already 9 centimeters dilated before relief came. She […]
I saw a music video this morning from a local Christian group called Tenth Avenue North. As I sat down to write this post, I could not at first recall the name of the song because the cinematography in the video was so overwhelmingly powerful. The song is You Are […]
My son Luke was listening to an Apologia science lesson, and my granddaughter Maggie was dancing to a song playing from a show on the children’s TV channel Qubo. I was holding my newest grandson Wyatt watching him sleep so peacefully in my lap and thinking of my daughter, his […]
I have seen devastation by fire, and I have seen devastation by flood. Both are tragic, and destroy most everything in their paths–and especially memories. The destruction by fire I personally witnessed was my parent’s home of over 40 years burning on Christmas Day from a broken candlestick on a […]
I guess I need to explain. My marriage is intact, and our 12-year-old remains in a stable home. Most of my blogs are meant to encourage parents who are training their children. This one is just for me to vent a little and maybe do some processing. It is about […]
I took my sister to Alabama to be in the studio audience of the Rick and Bubba show’s first radio broadcast of 2010. Unlike their names suggest, Rick & Bubba are incredibly intelligent, articulate, and hilarious men of integrity who honor God in every show — which is syndicated nationally […]