My husband, Bill, came home from a recent camping trip with an anecdote. As he was cleaning up after dinner, a hungry raccoon scrambled onto the site. It took Bill by...

Recently at church the praise team performed a beautiful song, and I began singing along as usual. But for some reason this time I became emotional. I continued listening intently and...

I read today’s passage of scripture from Luke 8 on the day before my surgery to remove a cancerous lump from my breast. Verse 48 spoke to me personally in several...

While looking through a book on astronomy, I came across a photo of a cluster of galaxies taken through a telescope. A cluster of galaxies! The realization of that magnitude was...

Parts of the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas are among the poorest areas in the United States. Even so, the residents of the area are models of charitable living. As a child,...

I have a terrace garden with a lot of potted plants. Each plant blooms in its own season. We all like to see beautiful things, so we showcase the best of...

In the COVID-19 world of social distancing, officers at our correctional facility have gotten creative in the games they devise for inmates. The latest contest involved competitive vision tests. I was...

Celebrities often get the spotlight, both for their achievements and their personal lives. They are like the stars in the sky or a town on a hill — clearly visible and...

The instructions for an unusual gardening project looked simple enough. I wedged a cut rose stem into a potato, buried the potato in a dirt-filled flowerpot, and fashioned a tiny greenhouse...

Deep under Duke University in North Carolina lies a world filled with fluorescent-lit rooms and millions of books. I once spent a few afternoons working in this underground library. I was...