Many of us who are married or in a committed relationship look to Valentine’s Day as a special time once a year to profess our love, our closeness, the intimacy that we share with that significant other in our lives.
That relationship is different from loving relationships with parents, siblings, other...
Two weeks after New Year’s Day – a day when resolutions are often made to commit for the rest of the year to personal goals, special life projects or reforming of a bad habit – many of us are having problems keeping to those resolutions.
While we know that losing weight, exercising, giving up alcohol...
The Advent and Christmas seasons are times when families draw upon traditions — some going back generations — that seek to prepare us for the coming of the savior in our lives and our hearts to be that place where the Christ child can reside and live.
Families, for instance, light Advent wreaths, create...
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
This quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin (and misattributed to Mark Twain and Benjamin Disraeli, among others) came home to me in a special way three weeks ago.
My vibrant, fun, spontaneous, loving Latina sister-in-law died...
Authors have many reasons for writing books associated with their life story. It could be the lure of fame, to earn more income, to get their message out, to change the world in some way or some or all of the above.
But Kevin Wells, author of the 2011 Servant Books’ Burst: A Story of God’s Grace When...
